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Starr Hill Music Hall has developed a great reputation for hosting jam bands. But here comes hip-hop in the form of GZA. In an online exclusive, the Hook interviews GZA.
The Wu-Tang Clan led the rest of the rap world to a new level of literary craftsmanship in the 1990's, and GZA led the rest of Wu-Tang both lyrically and figuratively. So it's quite likely that history will remember him as one of the architects of hip-hop– this is a guy who raps about chess strategies and writes five-minute narratives like "Labels," "Fame," and "Publicity," in which he slyly works in the names of all the record labels, pop culture icons, and magazines he can think of. The rest of the Clan refer to him as "The Genius," if that tells you anything; judge for yourself at Starr Hill on Monday, February 27.
The Hook: Wu-Tang's 1997 tour with Rage Against The Machine generated as much buzz as your live shows have ever seen. You're currently working on a mixtape with a huge list of guests, an album with Shavo Odadjian of System Of A Down, and then there's "Grandmasters" with DJ Muggs. Do you have a tendency toward collaborations that seem to come out of left field?
GZA: I think some people think I'm sort of out of left field, you know? I think Wu-Tang was on the left side.
The Hook: There are lots of Wu Tang members who don't appear on "Grandmasters." How did you decide who you wanted?
GZA: I always want to incorporate my clan on anything I do. But if it doesn't happen, I'm prepared. Always.
The Hook: You seem to approach your verses analytically, like a linguist. Do you consider yourself a writer rather than a rapper?
GZA: Of course. I tell someone "I write" rather than "I rap." That comes out once they figure out you're into music, but definitely, I'm a writer. It's about creating. Not many rappers can create on a writing level, because they don't show. I do a little bit of telling, but mostly I show. They do 99 percent telling. When I write, I take that which is fiction, I take that which is nonfiction, then I take that which is imagination, and then I take experiences, I take other people's experiences. Usually I like to write about other people, and not really myself.
The Hook: Why?
GZA: I don't want to talk about myself unless I'm telling a story that's important. You listen to a lot of hip-hop, and it's all braggadocio– how you dress, how much money you got, what you drive. That's what we started out with– we used to brag, but we used to brag about our abilities. On wax, we used to brag, but off wax I don't have to brag because the wax speaks for itself. You have to say "I'm real," "I'm a mack," "I'm a baller?" Wouldn't that show in your actions if it were true? You don't even have to say, "I'm intelligent," because other people will say that about you if that's true. You don't have to rhyme. You don't even have to speak. People will capture vibes about you if they're in the air, because information travels that way sometimes.
The Hook: Chess is a recurring theme in your work– do you think the specific topic is critical to your ability to build a successful allegory?
GZA: It's just what I do. It's what I live. As we speak right now, I'm looking at a chessboard with the pieces set up. You can't really throw a subject on what I rhyme about. I can use chess as a medium for anything I do.
The Hook: "Queen's Gambit" follows in the tradition of "Labels," "Fame," and "Publicity," but with football teams. What will your next topic be? Soups? Muppets? Military dictators?
GZA: It doesn't come like that. It comes naturally. "Publicity" was sparked by something someone else was writing. I'm not ashamed to admit it– that's what writers do. I can get sparked by one line– "The polar bear feasts on the blubber of seals." And I'm like, 'Wow.' Because I'm not just thinking about the arctic. I'm in the hood. I'm in the corporate world. I'm in the music business. When you're rapping about your rims, there's none of that. You want to talk about jewelry all day, but you don't even know that a diamond is a precious mineral formed from crystalline carbon, and the carbon is what gives the carbon its shine. There's a history there.
The Hook: And how do you hope history will remember ODB?
GZA: I know what his legacy is. I don't have to hope for anything, because I already know, and it's the will that makes things move. We didn't grow up on rap, because it wasn't around yet. We grew up on soul, on rock and roll. But hip-hop was already in us.
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A Labrador nicknamed "Jurong's Hachiko" after the famous loyal Akita who returned to a Tokyo train station daily to wait for his deceased owner has been given a new home.
The dog had been appearing at the same bus stop at Block 345 twice a day since May, and locals didn't know if the dog's owner had passed away or if the dog had simply been abandoned.
Residents attempted to lure him away from the bus stop, but the dirty Labrador, who's estimated to be about 7 or 8 years old, was wary of people.
Concerned, 68-year-old newspaper vendor known as Mr. Loke began leaving a bowl of dog food and rice out for the animal. He told Yahoo that although people had been throwing the animal food, the lonely Labrador would only eat when the food was placed in the bowl.
According to Loke, the dog is well-behaved and intelligent, even waiting for the light to turn green before crossing the street.
Many people attempted to capture the dog, but none were successful until July 15, when 36-year-old resident Kevin Teo and a dogcatcher secured the animal with a net. Wanting to give the Labrador a home, Teo and his wife had attempted to catch him for 47 days.
The dog is currently in the custody of Tigrris Pet Services, but owner S. Rajaa Shegarran says the canine will be taken to the vet and the groomer before going home with Teo.
You can watch a video about "Jurong's Hachiko" below.
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This article appeared in an August 2016 issue of the student newsletter.
By Marielle McGregor Ever heard the saying "work hard, play hard"? Well, now is your chance!
The first few weeks of classes will be packed with more than homework and books. There will be tons of back-to-school parties and student club meetings. Below is a breakdown of the official welcome back events at each of the seven Dallas Community Colleges. You can also
view the calendar for additional campus gatherings.
From a life-sized foosball game in the International Courtyard to a DJ spinning the latest hits in the Commons Courtyard, the Welcome Back Party at Brookhaven College has something for everyone. There will be plenty of free food to eat — grilled hot dogs, popcorn, cotton candy, snow cones — and lots of friends to meet (including student clubs and community vendors).
Welcome Back Party Wednesday, Sept. 14
11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Commons Courtyard
You have your textbooks, picked out your classes and are ready to rock for fall. That's awesome! Start things right with a Back-to-School Party that gets your endorphins going and your stomach full. Join fellow students at Cedar Valley College for food, fun and new friends.
Back-to-School Party Sept. 6
12:30 - 2 p.m. Courtyard Pictures from the Back-to-School Party will be posted on the
Cedar Valley College Office of Student Life Facebook page by Sept. 7.
The first week of classes is an exciting time, especially when you can win prizes! The Office of Student Engagement & Retention (OSER) will be hosting "Harvester W.O.W" — five days of giveaways, games and good ol' fashioned fun.
For a full listing of Harvester W.O.W events and locations, see below. Event photos will be posted to the
Eastfield College Facebook page.
Pop Questions & Popsicles Monday, Aug. 29 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Fireside Lounge and Admissions Lobby Get to know the campus and cool off with a summer treat.
Selfie Scavenger Hunt Tuesday, Aug. 30 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Fireside Lounge and Admissions Lobby Team up with other Eastfield Harvesters to take a student snapshot or tackle the selfie scavenger hunt.
Wear It Out Wednesday, Aug. 31 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. New to Eastfield? Trade in one of your high school or college T-shirts for a new OSER T-shirt. Just be sure your trade-in is clean as it will be donated! Also, there will be a fashion show. Sit back and watch returning students rock the runway.
Ask the Administrators Thursday, Sept. 1 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. The Pit Join OSER for coffee, tea and sweet treats. A panel of college administrators will be there to get your questions answered for student success.
Welcome Week Luau Friday, Sept. 2 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. The Lower Courtyard Where can you watch professional hula dancers perform, play games, win prizes and meet friends? The Welcome Week Luau at Eastfield College! You definitely don't want to miss this Friday fun.
The Office of Student Life at El Centro College invites students to enjoy four days of fun at Fall Fest — a week of welcome back activities for returning students and incoming freshman.
For a full listing of Fall Fest events and locations, see below. Pictures from the Fall Fest will be posted to the
ECC Student Life Facebook page.
OSL Open House Tuesday, Sept. 6
10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Office of Student Life, Room B-270 Stop by the Office of Student Life (OSL) for games and giveaways! Visitors can learn about all the opportunities we have for you this semester.
Club Expo Wednesday, Sept. 7 and Thursday, Sept. 8 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Student Center Come learn about the various student clubs and organizations on campus. Get involved and join a club!Field Day Thursday, Sept. 8 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Gymnasium Join the Office of Student Life and the Wellness Center for a full day of fun! This event will consist of a variety of relay competitions between students, staff and faculty. Come have fun and enjoy competing against one another.
Welcome Back Bash Friday, Sept. 9 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Student Center Come eat, play and celebrate the beginning of the 2016-2017 school year. It's free!
Surf's Up, ride the wave to success! Come out and enjoy food and fun while meeting other Mountain View students as well as college faculty and staff. The fall Welcome Back Party is the perfect time to make connections and access helpful resources.
All-School Welcome Back Party Aug. 31 12:30 - 2 p.m. and 4:30 - 6 p.m. Student Courtyard
Pictures from the All-School Welcome Back Party will be posted on the
Mountain View College Facebook page.
If you've been to the Welcome Back party at North Lake College before, you know it is one of the most well-attended events of the fall semester. There is plenty of free candy, and every student club on campus sets up a table to share information about its upcoming meetings and service projects. This year Student Life will be serving up hot dogs, lemonade, chips and cookies. There will be a dunk tank as well as inflatable sports games.
Welcome Back Thursday, Sept. 1 Noon - 2 p.m. Bldg. H, Room 200
Pictures from the Welcome Back party will be posted on the
North Lake College Facebook page as well as
The News-Register page.
The Student Life Office at Richland College is welcoming back students with four days of Welcome Week fun. For a full listing of locations, see below.
Free Treats and Sweets for Students Tuesday, Sept. 6 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. El Paso Lounge
Club Fair Wednesday, Sept. 7 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. El Paso Lounge Don't watch from the sidelines — get involved! The Club Fair will connect you with student clubs and organizations on campus. Sign up for your favorite!
Back-to-School Bash Thursday, Sept. 8 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. East Breezeway
The second day of the Club Fair will be even bigger, with a full-out Back-to-School Bash! The party is the first big event of fall and the official kickoff to the new semester. Thunderducks will have the opportunity to join student organizations, identify campus resources, connect with old friends (and meet new ones)!
Pictures from Welcome Week at Richland College will be posted on college social media pages as well as the Portfolio Studio website.


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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. ~ John Lennon
Mr. Lennon was a wise man.
Before I tell my tale I'll let you know that at this moment Luka is sleeping at my feet. This will become important in a moment.
Last weekend started out just like I had planned: a long hike and some swimming for the dogs on Saturday morning. By Saturday evening my plans were chugging along (watching a movie and knitting). Then, as midnight approached my plans went off the rails.
At 10:30 Saturday night Luka and I were speeding to town. Our destination: the animal emergency clinic.
He was admitted around midnight and at 4am Sunday he was in emergency surgery for an obstruction in his stomach. It turns out that what I thought was a scattering of garbage can contents on Thursday had really been an all-you-can-eat buffet. The paper products in my bathroom garbage can got stuck in his stomach. The vet said it was the second most difficult surgery of this kind she'd ever done.
That's my boy: an overachiever.
Luka came home last night and today I'm living a new reality (at least for the next several days).
I'm working from home. (Thank goodness my workplace was supportive when I explained what had happened.)
My furniture is barricaded against Luka jumping on it.
I'm spoon feeding my boy small amounts of fancy pants food several times a day.
I'm well on my way to starting my own pharmacy.
The schedule for these drugs is so detailed that I'm using my phone to alert me when it's time for a dose.
Finally, my new reality includes living with a cone-head.
Luka is also wearing a T-shirt to prevent Sadie from messing with his stitches.
Luka has accepted the cone and has quickly become adept at moving throughout the house and sleeping in it.
Milo, however, is taking no chances. He was nearly scooped up in the cone earlier today and quickly retreated under the table.
Milo did venture closer to hang out with his buddy.
Sadie has been comforting Luka, too.
Once this is crisis over I'm going to owe Sadie some special attention. My total focus right now is on Luka (I'm literally not letting him out of my sight) and I know she's getting the shaft in terms of my time. She's also sleeping in a crate instead of on my bed. Luka won't fit in his crate with the cone on and I don't trust Sadie to leave his stitches alone overnight. She is NOT happy sleeping in there but I'm taking no chances.
Life around here should be back to normal in a few weeks. I have a feeling they will be very long weeks.
I know that most of my readers have dogs. Are your garbage cans out where your dog can get to them? If they are: please, please, PLEASE secure them where the dog cannot get to them. Luka had never eaten garbage before and the first time he did it could have been fatal. Please learn from my mistake and put the cans away where your dog cannot get to them.
Finally, (to end on a humorous note), I have to ask: is Luka happy or is it the drugs?


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See Sioux Falls
Near Sioux Falls Airport, Convention Center, and Fairgrounds
Leave your cares behind when you stay at our Ramada Sioux Falls Airport Hotel & Suites. Conveniently located off I-29, our Sioux Falls location is near Sioux Empire Fairgrounds and minutes away from Sioux Falls Airport (FSD). Sioux Falls Convention Center is across the street and historic downtown is only three miles from our front doors.


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Five Things I Love Friday; These are my current obsessions.
1. Welcome
Welcome to our new home. Now, wipe your feet. Seriously. Our new place is all tile, and I never realized just how much dirt I track in.
2. Baked Goods
We live across the street from the cutest little bakery. (are you sensing a theme here?) I am a sucker for bread, donuts, croissants, cookies, cupcakes... basically anything good and carby. This place is going to be my Cheers. I can just feel it.
3. White Button Downs
Classic, and sometimes not so classic chic. I am looking for a more lightweight version for the end of summer.
4. Baths!
Who has a claw foot tub? This girl. If you need me, I'll be lounging in the bath. Forever.
5. Office Inspiration; God help me.
My new office is slightly bigger than my old one, but my studio is a WAY smaller. This means I have a lot of clothing and shipping materials in one space now. I need all the inspiration I can get.
Have A Great Weekend,
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Countries with Olympic Medals in Freestyle Wrestling
List of Olympic medal winning countries in the sport of freestyle wrestling. Countries that have won an Olympic medal -- silver, bronze or gold -- in freestyle wrestling are listed below. The Olympic medalist countries are sorted alphabetically and include information about which sport they won medals for when you click the name of the country. Additional information about each country, like which medals they won for their sports, are included when you click on the name of the country. If you're looking for the names of countries that have taken home an Olympic medal in freestyle wrestling then you're in the right place.
This list helps answer the questions "which countries have won Olympic medals in freestyle wrestling?" and "how many countries have Olympic medals in freestyle wrestling?".Countries that have had Olympic medal winners in freestyle wrestling are included along with pictures of the medal winning countries when possible. (48 items)


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NBC OKs season of J.J. Abrams' "Revolution," "Go On," "New Normal"
NEW YORK (AP) -- NBC has given an early sign of approval to three of its new series, handing each a full-season commitment.
The network announced Tuesday it is picking up for a full-season order the adventure-drama "Revolution" and the comedies "Go On" and "The New Normal."
The network said "Revolution," from producer J.J. Abrams, has averaged a healthy 9.8 million viewers in its first three airings. "Go On," which stars Matthew Perry, is averaging 8.6 million viewers thus far.
"The New Normal," from producer Ryan Murphy, is averaging 6 million viewers.
This fall NBC is launching a total of six new series, including the yet-to-premiere "Chicago Fire." The 2012-13 season officially began Sept. 24.


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Author: Agathe Guerrier (@agatheg), Strategist, BBH London & BBH Labs
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*Tonight at 9pm GMT* we're happy to say Kronenbourg 1664 is hosting a live event on the brand's YouTube channel, as part of its Slow the Pace campaign.
A Q&A with the star of our second commercial in the series, Suggs from Madness, it will be livestreamed from the studios of our partner Absolute Radio. Since Friday, users have been able to submit their questions on the channel via a Google Moderator widget, a tool that was developed a few months ago for YouTube's own Worldview project (featuring Obama and David Cameron), enabling citizens to quiz world leaders on issues of global governance.
To our knowledge, no brand has ever done this before. So nous croisons les doigts, as we say in France, until 10ish in the UK.
Watch the interview here.
This campaign is an integrated approach to broadcast and the social web that we're calling "Super Bowl, Super Social" (check out our post last year about Yeo Valley for a detailed case study). Very simply, we know successful brands marry broadcast and participation in ways that add value (utility, entertainment) to people's lives – the real-time web pushes that a stage further: rewarding brands that provide experiences and content that are bolder, better.
In the meantime, let's hope Suggs turns up tonight.
For more info you'll find Kronenbourg 1664 in all the usual places: @K1664slow, Kronenbourg 1664 on Facebook, Kronenbourg's YouTube channel.


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Ray's Take Every time you go out to lunch you see it: everyone's smart phones are right there on the table, ready for texting, talking, checking emails, or some quick research. What happened to simply staying connected to the ones right there in front of you?
Mobile phones, Internet connections and television cable bills are eating up an increasing amount of our paychecks. Are the rewards actually worth that substantial – and growing – investment?
Many families are shelling out $200, $300 or substantially more each month to maintain all these electronic connections, which means there are many opportunities to cut costs.
Have you compared your mobile plan with the actual number of minutes you use? You may not be using nearly as much as you're paying for. While Internet connectivity at home has become almost a necessity, have you considered using this system for telephone calls from your home using VoIP technologies, some of which are free? This could dramatically reduce the number of minutes your cell phone eats up. You can also use your high-speed Internet to stream much of the programming on television instead of paying hefty cable bills.
However, the other costs of super-connectivity should concern you, too. Face-to-face communications provide you with much more information than any email ever can. It's no wonder people often misunderstand the tone of an email. They have no access to the facial expressions and body language that speak volumes. At least with your cell phone, you can gain some information from vocal intonation. When the human component is missing it's easy to get the wrong message.
When you spend time engaged in-person, you learn more about the other person as well as about yourself. Your growth in understanding leads to more fulfilling relationships – in business and in your personal life. What you learn could enrich your life in more ways than one. Isn't that worth the extra effort?
Dana's Take The Nielson Company claims that American teens are on average sending an extraordinary 2,779 text messages a month – each.
I would venture that if parents socked away and invested the money we might have spent on phones and data plans for our children, we could save a year's college tuition for each child.
Where teens and driving are involved, the other potential savings is far more precious: your child's life. If we, as adults, can't refrain from calling and texting while driving, can we realistically expect a teen to have that kind of restraint?
If you've ever heard a kid's phone pinging with texts every 30 seconds while they try to complete homework, you've seen the other cost of phones – distraction.
Next time you're looking for budget cuts, cut the cord on kids' cell phones.


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June 05, 2014
By Kenneth D. Miller
Assistant Managing Editor
Among the most prominent alumni of Crenshaw High School's illustrious athletic history is one track and field star Johnny Gray who was an Olympic champion in 1987 and 1999.
However, after the Cougars football team captured the 2013 City Division I title last fall, momentum was established for another sport to do something special, and low and behold it turned out to be the almost forgotten track and field program.
Operating on a shoestring budget of a measly $200, newly hired track coach Damon Hicklin, 39, knew from the beginning that he had his work cut out for him.
The Downey High School and Fresno State graduate was once a standout performer in the 100,200 and 400 meters, but went to college on a football scholarship.
After tearing his ACL his football future was a wrap, so he return back to region as an assistant varsity football coach at South Gate.
Five years later he became the receivers coach at Azusa Pacific and in 2007 produced All American Johnny Davis.
Another half decade past and he became the receivers' coach at Whittier College where he developed Damon Fooks into an All American in 2012.
Last fall, Hicklin was hired at Crenshaw as a special education teacher, but it wasn't long after he was summoned by the administration to take over the hapless track and field program.
It was a daunting assignment, but Hicklin embraced the challenge and the results in his first year at the helm have been stunning.
The Cougars will have eight members of their team representing Crenshaw in the State Championships beginning on Friday June 6 and concluding on Saturday June 7 at Fresno.
Led by City Champions Kayla Williams who captured the 100 title clocking 12.22 and 300 meter hurdle queen Unique Dickens, the Cougars will compete in the girls and boys 4x100 meter relays and will have two performers in the 300 meter hurdles.
Dickens also carries a 3.67 grade point average despite losing both of her parents.
She represents the Cougars bright future, a junior who along with other juniors such as Williams, Brianna Butler and Brianna Walker will be returning to build on the winning foundation next year.
Senior Kalina McKaney on the girls 4x100 relay team at the state meet will join the aforementioned trio.
The boy's 4x100 meter relay team is composed of seniors Nolan Grigbsy who was also a football champion, Christian Williams, Anthony Madumbe and Kristopher Pollard who stars in soccer and has drawn interest from USC and Texas.
Justin Alexander who ran a personal best of 39.6 in the 300-meter hurdles and finished second at the City finals will qualify for that event.
Hicklin and his assistant coaches took the extra effort to transport team members to and from practice, raise $5000 to compete in meets throughout the season and also washed the team's uniforms.
He has reached out to the community and alumni by implementing a program of adopting an athlete, assisting the student athletes with track shoes and other equipment.
An estimated 10 percent of the students are foster students, and Williams who lives in Compton rides the bus to and from school each and every day.
"I believe that we have built a foundation to do some special things down the road," Hicklin told the Sentinel.
"It's hasn't been easy, and the students that I have on the team have worked hard to get to where they are."
It has created a new spirit on the campus that revolves around the track team. Other students now want to come out for the team next year and the champion football players are among the team's biggest supporters.
Hicklin doesn't expect to win a state title this year, but he didn't anticipate that the Cougars would even be at the state finals.
No matter how things turn out during this most unique season, it had been a rewarding one that has cemented a foundation for better things to come.


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Author(s): Rough Guides
The "Rough Guide to Southeast Asia on a Budget" is the ultimate guide for budget-conscious independent travellers visiting this fascinating region. Updated by young, enthusiastic writers, the guide has detailed practical information that will help readers make the most of their time and money, whether it's taking a slow boat down the Mekong, or catching the "Jungle Railway" through Malaysia's interior. Our extensive coverage includes all of the most popular Southeast Asian destinations, alongside less "discovered" places, with information on getting off the beaten track - whether to hike through the rainforest, visit remote hill tribes or just find a quiet stretch of white sand. The itineraries provide a great starting point for travellers to the region, while the "Ideas" section focuses on some of the region's many highlights, illustrated by beautiful photographs. Make the most of your time with "The Rough Guide to Southeast Asia on a Budget".


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Dear Customers, due to the COVID-19 outbreak we are experiencing higher than normal demand on various infection control products including face masks, shields and hand sanitizing products. As this outbreak is affecting the industry at every point of the supply chain, such previously stated products are on back order. Orders being processed may be delayed during this time due to the high volume and we appreciate your patience, thank you.


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Toma v. Motley Crue et al., No. 08-3479 (N.D. Ill., Filed June 17, 2008)
The purported owner of the copyright in photos taken of members of Motley Crue way back in 1981 has filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, alleging that the band, Universal Music Group and Singatures Network have committed copyright infringement. [Read the Complaint] Interesting to see UMG, who is frequently on the dishing-it-out side in so many of the file sharing lawsuits now being put in the position of taking it.
The claims in the lawsuit are pretty straightforward, and the complaint is written in typical federal pleading bare bones style. In a nutshell, plaintiff Toma allegedly acquired the copyright in the photos through assignment from the photgrapher, one Michael Pinter (though Toma didn't seek registration until March of this year). The defendants are alleged to have committed infringement by "publishing and selling" copies of the images.
Toma seeks actual damages plus costs and attorney's fees (not sure of the basis for an attorney's fee award given the timing of registration) as well as injunctive relief from any futher infringement.


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[♫ techno music ♫] [Adobe TV Presents] [Russell Preston Brown in...] [The Russell Brown Show] Once again, it's time for The Russell Brown Show. And in this episode, called "Masking Magic," I'm going to give you two tips in one. I'm going to show you some great features of masking here inside of Photoshop® CS5, and I'm going to double the action in this demo by showing you some content-aware filling that you might not have thought of using this tool for. So my goal is to mask out this background easily and quickly so that I can see my background. However, my background is not complete yet. I'm going to start this off by making a selection. I'm going to use my marquee tool and go in here and select this region right there, just like that. Now, of course, content-aware fill allows you to repair certain areas of the image that you've selected. It will magically fill those areas in with the surrounding texture. But I'd like to use this tool to create more texture for me, so I'm selecting this brick wall. I'm going to invert my selection here--Inverse selection. What did that do? I now have this area selected in the transparency. Okay. That's the area that I want to fill with the brick pattern. So, interesting tip and technique. And by the way, these images I'm using here today are from iStockphoto, a great library of images, and it's a great set of images I can use for demos like this. Okay, I have my selection that I want to fill. Now a great tip and technique when doing content-aware fill-- if you just want to fill something quickly and easily, hold down your SHIFT key and the DELETE key at any time, and make sure you're targeting the layer that you want to fill. And if you do that combination, you can go right in here and select Content-Aware fill, just like this, and click OK. Now check this out. It's calculating a pattern and texture based upon the image I have in my background, as you can see here. But I'm going to show you something really special because--check it out-- it's created a tile pattern, but you see this detail here? What if I don't want this detail of the arch to appear? This is the super user tip and technique of the day. Ladies and gentlemen, girls and boys, check it out. I'm making a selection here of the area that I do not want to appear in my pattern. I can go over to this layer and create a layer mask. If I click here on my Add Layer Mask, it's going to make me a mask. I'm going to invert my mask with command I. Okay, this is getting complicated, but let's slow down. So I only want to use the brick pattern as my tile, so I hid the window temporarily with a layer mask. So anything I hide with a layer mask is not included in the pattern that's created. Let's go back over here. So I click, I select. So we got that? I make a selection. I invert my selection. And then I do the SHIFT and DELETE again, Content-Aware fill. Content-aware fill looks at only those pixels which are available to use as the pattern, and it will now fill in this area in the background. Let me do that one more time, because you must, however, target the image in order for this to work. SHIFT, DELETE, Fill. I've even left in the mistake so you can see that you must target the color image then SHIFT, DELETE, and using content-aware fill...check it out! Check it out. There's none of the pattern of the arch. I merely turn the arch back on--like that--deselect my selection, so I now have a perfect tile pattern using content-aware fill, and I hid areas that I did not want to appear in that pattern. Okay. That was tip number 1. Back to our show here, because we're really about how do we mask these birds against this background? And I want to show some advanced tips and techniques here. Target your birds right like this. You can use your standard selection tools. In this case--color range seems perfect for this case, because color range will let me select all the blue values in the background, just like this. I target them and then adjust my fuzziness. And I'm going to turn on localized color clusters, because I know that that gives me my best quality when working on a mask. Holding down my SHIFT key to make sure that I have all of the available tones of blue throughout the image, and adjust my fuzziness here just to the point-- I want a little bit of fuzziness because I'm really looking for the motion blur happening here on these wings, and that's the trickiest thing about masking, is motion blur. So let's click OK. We now have a selection for the background. Let's go immediately over here to our masked panel So we can use many of our selection tools as the first step in creating a really quality mask and in this particular case, I've used the backgrounds, the color range tool to do this. Okay, I've targeted my mask. I'm going to click right here to add the mask. I can invert the mask down here at the base, and I now have the birds. Okay. Here comes the advanced tips and techniques here, because this is where-- this is the image right here. This area right here is the most important part. Let's go right into our Mask Edge mode right here, and let's refine this mask. Color range is great, but refining it with the Refine Mask tool is even better. What I want to do is go right here. Let's do a little Smart Radius. Let's bring our radius up. Let's watch the edge. Did you see the edge expand a bit? Let's show the radius. It's automatically adjusting into the motion blur, doing a really, really great job I can actually go in and refine this with a little bit of edge shift. I can bring this out or in to adjust this like this. Look! I can see the transparency through to the brick in the background with the motion blur, but I'm also seeing that blue edge. This is the best. Let's decontaminate the colors along that edge so that we can then--Oh! Oh! I just have to zoom in, because that is too good. Before. So here's before--blue edge. How many tips and techniques are there in the world for getting rid of that blue edge? And now there's just one button, and then you can slide your slider to-- slide this over to get this just right. Okay. Looks great. Let's click OK. Double-click on our hand tool to see our entire image. Really, really refined quality to this. We created a pattern in the background. We brought in the birds. We used the great new advanced controls. But I'm going to leave you with one last tip and technique, because I said this one is full of tips and techniques today. Check this out. I'm going to copy by clicking on this background image and make a copy of it. Like that. The lower of the two, right here, is just a copy. It has the exact same mask attached to it. I'm going to set this to Screen. For extra bonus points here today--check it out. So here's the screened version--and I used to use this tip and technique when I didn't have CS5. You might screen the image of the doves into the background, but here's a great tip and technique: Combine the screen with your original. Combine the two together, and you get this really beautiful, nice glow happening behind it to even give it a richer, richer quality as if it really, really is there, and you transitioned the two together. There you have it. The demo with everything-- content-aware fill and using the new masking features in Photoshop® and masking out motion blur. Give these a try. [♫ upbeat techno music ♫] [Adobe TV Productions]
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In this episode of the Russell Brown Show, Russell shows you some of the new Masking features found in Adobe Photoshop CS5 combined with the amazing new Content Aware Fill feature.
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Just before we take down our 'High Summer' moodboard on this last day of August, we wanted to consider these images once more — and also what makes the season such a favored one.
A central aspect of summer's joy is always to be found in color. Whether it's rich yellow sunshine, shimmering blue pools, or ice cream colors, when we think of summer our minds automatically flash to a color. And, like drinking tea on a hot day to cool down, somehow hot fashion colors work especially well as the temperature intensifies.
It's not surprising summer is also a season when painters can arrive at their most luminous work. To our mind, Georgia O'Keefe and Pierre Bonnard (both equally underrated) are two of the most significant colorists of the 20th century — to experience their paintings firsthand is to see pure joy in, and a deep inquiry of, color. On our board (lower left), we pinned O'Keefe's New Mexico summer sky, and Bonnard's nude of his wife.
What makes summer particularly sweet is its fleeting nature. While winter goes on and on, summer never lasts long enough. The afternoon spent on a sailboat, the lazy ride on a ferry, or the delicious afternoon dozing on a sofa — these are moments to savour before the real work of back-to-school Autumn begins.
* Selected sources: Hotel du Cap feature from WSJ Magazine, photo of Brigitte Bardot on Hydra from Paris Vogue, ice cream paint palette from House Beautiful.


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Join us for a conversation with Richard Russo as he discusses Empire Falls.
Was there a particular event or image that sparked Empire Falls?
When I finish a novel, it's hard to go back and try to reconstruct its beginnings. It's a little like an interrogation: what did you know and when did you know it? Here are a couple of things, though. When I was living in Waterville, Maine, some years ago, a factory closed down that had employed a large number of women who had been sewing famous-label men's dress shirts for much of their lives. They'd done everything they could to save their jobs and the factory, but the multi-national company that owned it shut them down anyway. That struck me as a story that was playing out all over the country, if not the world. From the beginning of my writing career, I've always been interested in ordinary people swept up in economic and political forces they can't begin to comprehend, as well as in the changing face of American labor. Becoming a writer has only deepened my sympathies for working people, who are always, it seems to me, the first to be sold out.
The other event that had burrowed deep was the school shooting in Paducah, especially the question it begged: how could such a thing happen here? The answers that are typically offered to such questions are sociological and political--tighter gun control, return to family values, reducing violence on television and video games. Better answers to such impossible questions, I've always thought, are offered by novels, which ask you to live horror rather than simply witness or think about it.
Finally, in my previous novels I've written a lot about fathers and sons. As a father of two beloved daughters, I thought it high time to put a father/daughter relationship at the heart of one of my novels. In fact, now that I look back on it, it's the thing I'm most proud of in this new book.
Empire Falls has a large cast of characters, any of whom might have been the center of the novel. How did you decide on Miles Roby, the middle-aged manager of the Empire Grill, as your protagonist?
I suppose there are two answers to this question. The first is kind of a non-answer, though it may be the truer. Such decisions are often intuitive; they feel right. Which is another way of saying that you decide before you're even aware of the fact that you have a decision to make. The more "analytical" answer is that of all the characters in the novel, Miles may be the most trapped--and that's saying something, since they're all trapped in one way or another. Janine is trapped by her need to be beautiful; Tick by her youth; David Roby by an accident. Even Mrs. Whiting, who rules the town, is in a way cornered by it. But Miles is trapped more interestingly and more completely--by the past, by his faith, by an old love, by his devotion to his daughter, by his own decency. I'm always drawn to the character whose dilemma is such that I can't imagine what I would do if I were in his shoes.
People in Empire Falls often remind Miles that he stands to inherit something from Mrs. Whiting, yet the very possibility of this inheritance seems to imprison him. Is this an example of the price of wealth, even predicted wealth?
I suppose that's one way to look at it. My own feeling is that people are generally wrong to wait for others to make good on promises, either explicit or implied. Was it Lillian Hellman who used to tell young women writers: "Don't expect anyone to save you? Save yourself." Maybe it was Flannery O'Connor. Somebody pretty damn smart, anyway. It's good advice, but tough to follow when you've been told the check's in the mail. Whole communities wait for promises to be fulfilled, long after those who made the promises are dead and buried. And like individuals, communities imagine promises and also mishear them. Miles is pretty sure Mrs. Whiting has made a promise, but is it one he heard? Imagined? Hoped for? And even if it were granted, would that be a good or bad thing?
Can you talk about the effect of the collapse of small-town economies on the younger generation, as represented by Miles's daughter Tick and her peers?
I think the place you grow up in is a lot like "The Hotel California": you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave. We'll never know any place better than the place we grew up, and no place, I suspect, will ever be more important to us, at least in terms of our imaginative lives. For that reason there's something tragic in the understanding that many kids from small towns have--that in order to be a success in life, they'll have to leave; to remain behind would be an admission of failure. For many, it means leaving their heart's home. Then again, there's a long American tradition, embodied in the novels of Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis and others, which suggests that leaving a small town may be about the best thing that can happen to any young person. One thing seems clear: we've become a far-flung nation. "Where do you want to go today?" Bill Gates wants to know. Implied is that nobody wants to stay home.
Miles considers the rich "beautiful people" on Martha's Vineyard almost foreign to him, and yet he's drawn to them. Do you find yourself identifying with this perspective?
Well, who isn't attracted to beauty? Or, for that matter, to things foreign? Both Gatsby and Nick Carroway are attracted to the mansions and the fancy cars and the wild parties on Long Island, just as Pip is attracted to privilege in Great Expectations. Show me someone who claims not to be attracted to such things and I'll show you either a liar or a person with no imagination. That said, wealth and beauty play a key role in Gatsby's destruction, and they cause Pip to behave in such a way that he loses all sense of his truest self. In the end they send Nick scurrying back to his bedrock Midwest values, feeling like he himself has dodged a bullet. Such is the nature of seduction.
How do you imagine Mainers, and other New Englanders, will respond to the novel?
No clue. I thought academics would hate my last novel, Straight Man, but for the most part they've embraced it. When I read from the novel on book tour, professors showed up wearing those fake nose/glasses I have Lucky Hank wearing when he threatens to kill a duck a day. In general, I think people like having their experience of life validated; they like to think they count and they're glad you've noticed them, even if you get things wrong. In Empire Falls, I didn't want to "do Maine" in the sense of using a lot of down-east dialect or local color. Even when I was writing about upstate New York, I was always more interested in locating people by class and work than by region; it's the latter that makes you a "regional" writer, I suspect.
I hope people in Maine like the book; in the past, I've sold very well in New England. But my greater hope is that the book will ring true everywhere.
What might surprise your readers about Empire Falls?
Well, I hope everything and nothing. When a favorite author of mine comes out with a new book, I always hope for two contradictory things: first, I hope it's like all the other books of his or hers that I love, and second, I hope he's not going to repeat himself. Sure, it's a paradox, but I suspect I'm not alone in my desires. So, I hope that when readers pick up Empire Falls and read the first chapter they'll feel that, yes, they're in a Russo novel, but not one they've read before. I'd also hope that their surprises in the reading parallel my own in the writing; I was surprised on virtually every page, and I hope readers will be too, because I wouldn't like to think that either my style or my peculiar way of seeing things have become predictable. What surprised me most about the book was how much it took out of me. Even though we know it won't, most authors keep hoping that writing novels will get easier as a result of experience. It doesn't, probably because it's not supposed to.
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Julian Bond: That's Bond, Julian Bond
What do you ask civil rights legend Julian Bond when you have only a few minutes for an interview? Should it be about the recent National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Award he received October 23 in Memphis? Or how he's revitalized the NAACP since becoming its chairman in 1998? And what about reparations to descendants of slaves? Or his life as an academic at American University in Washington and UVA, where he teaches a subject that he lived, the popular "History of the Civil Rights Movement"?
We go for the obvious: What was it like to host Saturday Night Live in 1977 when all of the original cast were there except for Chevy Chase?
"It was great. It used to be a comedy show," he replies. And it was an SNL anniversary show and dinner that led to a telling O.J. Simpson encounter.
"We get to the table and there's only one seat left because O.J. Simpson brought Nicole and her mother," he recounts. "Nicole ends up sitting on his lap. And that was the day she bought the gloves from Bloomingdale's." Are we imagining that Bond hums the theme from Twilight Zone?
On the reparations issue, he wants to clarify one thing: He's not talking about payments to individuals. "I'd like to see it done as payments from governments to institutions so Bill Cosby's children are not lining up to get big checks, but Joe Johnson living in Harlem can get an infusion of cash to the schools and community there."
Forty years as an activist, and Bond thinks about retiring from the teaching, not the cause. For now, his wife drives him to Charlottesville every week for his Tuesday through Thursday classes. "She's a better driver than I am," he explains.
Home for the only slightly mellowed militant is Washington, because, he says, "We like not being represented in Congress."
Age: 62
What brought you here? Teaching at UVA
What's worst about living here? There is no worst. We live in D.C. and spend mid-week here. It's like having a city home and a small town home.
Favorite hangout? Wherever my wife is.
Most overrated virtue? Nonpartisanship
What would people be surprised to know about you? My tattoo
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I'd develop an interest in sports to please my wife.
What accomplishment are you proudest of? The years I spent with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
What do people find most annoying about you? You'd have to ask them.
Whom do you admire? Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. DuBois
Favorite book? This changes. I'm now reading a biography of Lester Young– Lester Leaps In: The Life and Times of Lester "Pres" Young by Douglas Henry Daniels that's fantastic.
What subject causes you to rant? How much space do you have? The pathetic, vapid state of journalism, fanatic American religiosity, hypocrisy.
What thrills you about life in the 21st century? It seems much the same to me.
What creeps you out about life in the 21st century? That it seems much the same.
What do you drive? A Volvo station wagon
What's in your car CD player right now? Stevie Wonder's Innervisions
What's your next journey? To Scottsdale, Arizona, on business
What's the most trouble you've ever gotten in? I wouldn't tell you.
What do you regret? The trouble I got in.
Favorite comfort food? Macaroni and cheese
What's always in your refrigerator? Chocolate sauce
Must-see TV? HBO's The Wire
Favorite cartoon? Boondocks
Describe a perfect day. I awake.
Walter Mitty fantasy? Leader of the original Temptations.
Who'd play you in the movie? When I'm young– Mario Van Peebles; when I'm old– Harry Belafonte.
Most embarrassing moment? Running downstairs naked at my mother's tea party.
Best advice you ever got? It was 1966, and I was faced with a great dilemma involving conscience: whether to repudiate an anti-war statement issued by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee which I had already embraced– and thereby win admission to the Georgia legislature– or continue to endorse it, thereby risking expulsion. The Reverend Ralph Abernathy, a close associate of Dr. King, told me, "Just make sure you do something you can live with," and I did. I stuck by my guns and was expelled, but I've never regretted it. After all, we were right.
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I really really like this restaurant 火胖子肥肠煲 (Huǒ pàngzi féicháng bāo). It sells Sichuanese cuisine. I've actually eaten there twice during my stay in China earlier this month.
The first time I went there I ordered beef gan guo. There's a story behind this selection, but that's a story for another time, another place. I also ordered mapo tofu and stir-fried cabbages.
The next day I wasn't particularly hungry, so I only ordered seafood gan guo. Turned out to be one of the best things I've ever eaten! I ate the pot clean, even the onions, except for the chili-things.
They also have the best barley tea! It was free, and you first use it to sanitize your bowls and chopsticks. Although it is called tea, actually it is not made of tea leaves, but sesame-like grains. When I pay, I asked the cashier lady if I could buy the tea grains, I wanted to bring it back to Indonesia.
When I studied my receipt later, I found out that she put it as 一桶饭 (yī tǒng fàn), one container of rice.
The service was wonderful for China restaurants standard. The waiters and waitresses were helpful and very patient to me who can barely speak Chinese. Hey, I can write Chinese, but I can't do it orally okay? And no, no Google for you in mainland China. Good luck with that.


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February 10, 2012
To: All Member Companies of PPMA
Dear Members,
As you may already know regarding the unfortunate deaths reported at the Punjab Institute of Cardiology in the past few weeks. We, the Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association (PPMA), the representative body of the Pakistan pharma industry have been shocked by this tragedy and have full sympathies with the affected families. We have been having contacts and meetings with the authorities and also with the technical personnel in our member companies all over Pakistan. The main purpose of the contacts and meetings was to
1. To ascertain the facts
2. To review the Quality Assurance/ Quality Control and cGMP guidelines and SOPs for validation.
These measures would be vital to prevent any further mishap of this nature.
Coming now to the facts; the samples were sent to the government labs as well as independent labs in the UK and Belgium. So far we have seen reports of one batch from a particular company being contaminated. However, we are unable to share the details as the matter is subjudice as the Supreme Court of Pakistan has taken Suo Moto notice of the entire matter.
We would like to mention here that due to lot of hype created by the media, panic has been created in the public's mind that all locally produced medicines are spurious and sub-standard. We started getting enquiries from the foreign buyers of our medicines, asking our manufacturers to clarify the matter. In at least two cases, the orders have been cancelled by the foreign buyers. We held press conference in Karachi, Lahore, and Islamabad where we stated the facts of the matter with a view of restraining the media not to spread the misinformation campaign as it would shatter the trust that the National pharma industry has built in the public over several decades, and would lead to its collapse, paving way for counterfeits to fill the vacuum that would be created in the market. The National pharma industry is exporting to over 60 countries and the total exports are around USD 170 million. 40% of the leading brands of medicines marketed by MNCs in Pakistan are manufactured by National companies under contract manufacturing. This is reflective of the quality manufacturing of the National industry and the trust reposed in it. We would like to mention that the exported drugs also undergo stringent quality control checks in their respective importing countries (case in point, Afghanistan where all batches are quarantined for 15 days by their Ministry of Health and then released for marketing after QC clearance), suggesting additional safeguards for the patients.
Incidence like this one, though unfortunate, happens even in developed markets and big MNCs have recalled contaminated batches, after deaths were reported. We strongly feel that the entire industry's image should not be damaged because of once in a lifetime incident like this one.
We hope that we have been able to give our viewpoint, and would like to assure you that the PPMA is doing whatever it can to prevent such an occurrence in the future. Our members have already started the process of re-validation in their manufacturing process. We seek your understanding and support in the matter.
Thanks and regards
Riaz Hussain
Executive Director/ Secretary General PPMA
c.c. Mr. Tariq Ikram, Acting Chairman PPMA
Mr. Muhammad Asad, Chairman PPMA (on leave)


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Jason Aldean's April concert at the University of Georgia was a dream come true and one that made history as the first ever held at Sanford Stadium, home of the Georgia Bulldogs football team.
"Georgia football is like a religion where I'm from," Aldean told CMT Hot 20 Countdown . "And just growing up such a huge fan of that team and that school and to have a chance to go back and play a show of that size in that stadium — and be the first artist ever to play in that stadium in front of my friends and family — that was the best part of it to me."
The concert was a packed with surprises, including show-stopping guest appearances the Georgia native admits were fun to prepare.
"It's fun [when] you know what's about to happen and nobody else does," said Aldean. "When that other artist hits the stage and the place erupts like that, it's a good feeling. And, plus, you feel like you're giving the fans something they weren't expecting — something that was a little added bonus — which is always nice to do, too."
Now Aldean is bringing the unforgettable experience to fans everywhere with the release of Night Train to Georgia, a concert DVD shot live at the show.
"I got the chance to see bits and pieces of it as they put it together and finally got a chance to see it all finished, and it's cool," he said. "I think it turned out really good. Shaun Silva directed it, and he's done a ton of great music videos, so I'm excited for people to see it."
In an exclusive CMT special, fans can catch a 30-minute preview of the film . Tune in Saturday (Oct. 19), at 2 p.m. ET/PT following the latest CMT Hot 20 Countdown for a sneak peek of Aldean's Night Train to Georgia.


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Portland State University has named Arlene Schnitzer and Jordan Schnitzer and Irving Levin and Stephanie Fowler as the honorees for the 13th annual Simon Benson Awards, which will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 9 at the Oregon Convention Center. Together, the two families have given millions of dollars to a wide array of causes in the Portland area and beyond.
In addition to the two Simon Benson Awards, PSU will bestow its first ever Alumni Achievement Award to Travis Knight, president and CEO of LAIKA, the Hillsboro, Ore., animation studio that produced the Academy Award-nominated film "Coraline." Knight earned a bachelor's degree in social science from PSU in 1998.
Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton, famous for her roles in movies such as "The Godfather," "Annie Hall" and "Something's Gotta Give," will be the headline speaker at this year's event. Keaton has played a range of dramatic and comedic roles over her more than 40 years in Hollywood. She is also a photographer, real estate developer, author and occasional singer.
Arlene, Jordan and the late Harold Schnitzer have been major philanthropic forces in Oregon for decades.
The Harold Schnitzer Family has supported virtually every cultural, educational and social service agency in our region, including the Portland Center for the Performing Arts, which renamed their theater "The Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall." Other organizations supported by the Schnitzer Family include The Portland Art Museum, Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Lewis & Clark College Northwestern School of Law, the University of Oregon, the Oregon Symphony, as well as providing contributions of more than $1.6 million to PSU since 1998.
In addition to receiving the Portland First Citizen Award in 1995, Arlene and her late husband Harold were also given honorary doctorates from PSU in 2004 and honorary doctorates from PNCA in 2011.
Jordan Schnitzer has received numerous honors and awards, including the PSU President's Award for Outstanding Philanthropy in 2002, the State of Oregon's Governor Arts Award in 2003, the Association of Fundraising Professionals' Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser Award in 2009 and the Lewis & Clark College Northwestern School of Law's Distinguished Business Law Graduate Award in 2011, among others. He has served on more than 30 nonprofit boards and organizations, strengthening their presence in the community.
Irving Levin is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and mentor. He and his wife Stephanie Fowler co-founded The Renaissance Foundation in 2000 to benefit a wide range of philanthropic interests, especially education. Levin is currently Executive Chairman of Genesis Financial Solutions and Chairman of Digital Divide Data, an international social enterprise operating in several developing countries. He serves on the boards of several private companies and non-profits, and previously was on the boards of the PSU Foundation, Providence St. Vincent Medical Foundation, SMART and the Children's Institute, among others.
Fowler is an award-winning journalist and a psychotherapist. She was an associate editor and member of the editorial board of The Oregonian, and for nine years hosted Oregon Public Broadcasting's news and public affairs program "Seven Days." For many years prior, she was the political reporter/analyst at KGW-TV, then KOIN-TV. She serves on the Oregon Board of the Nature Conservancy, the World Affairs Council advisory board and as a Trustee of Lewis and Clark College.
"We have learned you can't fix the whole world, so you have to focus, and it's best to focus on things you care about. Education is one of our shared passions," Levin said. Levin and Fowler created a scholarship at PSU for students who are the first in their families to attend a four-year college in the United States. Over 50 students have benefited from the scholarship. They are co-sponsors of an I Have A Dream class in the Portland area. The Renaissance Foundation also supports youth and human services, the environment and educational outreach programs.
Named after one of Oregon's first philanthropists, the Simon Benson Award was created by PSU in 1999 to honor the region's contemporary pioneers in philanthropy. Recipients are community leaders who have generously given time and resources to improve the lives of generations of Oregonians. A key objective of the event is to highlight the impact and raise the profile of philanthropy throughout Oregon. In 2011, the Simon Benson Awards Dinner raised an unprecedented $840,000, supporting students, faculty, and campus programs at PSU.
This year's event has been already received the gracious support from the following lead sponsors:
Principal Level Sponsors: Howard S. Wright, The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation, Peter and Julie Stott
Leadership Level Sponsors: KeyBank, Portland Monthly Magazine, Umpqua Bank
To purchase tickets for the Simon Benson Awards Dinner: pdx.edu/giving/simon-benson-awards-dinner or contact Lea Pfau at email@example.com or 503-725-5078.


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With less than a week to go before we return to Hungary, we have to cover a lot of ground finding things that we can't ever eat in Budapest. Although Hungary actually does have Korean food, it doesn't have Palisades Park, New Jersey, a suburb just across the George Washington Bridge that hosts the densest population of Koreans in North America. The northern New Jersey towns of Fort Lee, Cliffside Park, Leonia, and Teaneck all have large populations of Koreans, but Palisades Park wins on the culinary front. Broad Street, the main drag, is a two mile long taste of Seoul, with all manner of Korean BBQ joints next to catering shops, bakeries, noodle shops, and Korean fried chicken places.There is a huge Han Ah Rheum Korean shopping mall nearby. Last year I discovered the amazing Dokdo Seafood restaurant (Raw sea squirts! Raw sliced sea cucumber!) on Broad street, but this year we were headed to our favorite soft tofu soup diner in Fort Lee when I remembered a Tofu restaurant in Palisade Park. We decided to try something new. Officially, this is the Pal Gak Jung Restaurant at 268 Broad Avenue - a place often known simply as the Tofu Restaurant, although the menu is a pretty full of all of my korean cravings, from meat to seafood.
The lunch menus were excellent value, averaging about $10 a lunch, which comes with then obligatory slew of ban chan plates – pickles, small bites, and the ever present kimchee without which it is simply not a Korean meal. I had the soft tofu soup – as good as any I have ever eaten, in which the tofu serves the purpose of noodles, and you can take a spoonful of rice to slurp up the spicy red pepper stock, which in this case contained beef, shrimp, and seafood. Fumie went for the octopus stew on rice lunch plate, which was a huge portion of fresh octopus bathed in a mildly spicy red pepper paste.
This place was so good that a few days later when our friend Bob Godfried suggested we go out for some Korean food, we jumped at the chance to return to the Pal Gak Jung Tofu Restaurant. We weren't disappointed, Bob knows New York's ethnic music and food scenes inside out – anything diluted for tourists or compromised into unspiciness would immediately earn a rain of opprobrium from the astute Godfried. But no... he liked it. More kimchee banchan,,, and then out came a free plate of cold sliced pork with the skin on and two dipping sauces. This is why it is good to go to places like this late – they realize the goodwill value of dumping the day's banquet leftovers on you. We ordered a bit of everything: Korean seafood pancakes came out nice and crispy, stuffed full of crab and shrimp.
The grilled short ribs here were cut in a special style leaving a nice hunk of bone to gnaw on, but these were some of the tenderest kalbi ribs I ever had, and three of us could not quite finish the whole order.
Fumie ordered a red kimchee stew while Bob went for a beef bulgogi stew, both excellent and filling. After our first lunch trip, we went down Broad street to the Parisian Baguette Bakery.This a is a chain that can be found in any Korean shopping mall or town, and it competes on Broad street with the equally good Shilla Bakery and a few other trendy coffee and bubble tea spost for the very active Korean need to eat high quality Euro-Asian pastries and coffee. Fumie went on a buying spree, setting aside boxes that would serve as her breakfast for the coming days.
I have an addiction to Korean food... which shouldn't be pricy. Why pay double to eat in Manhattan when you can eat in style in NJ. Well... for some reason, New Jersey absolutely fails in the American restaurant category. There are some pretty bad places to eat out here, but when it comes to certain ethnic communities – Korean, Dominican, and Lebanese come to mind - you can find some of the best food in the USA just off some highway exit tucked into some nondescript ethnic neighborhood. Just ask Mr. Godfried.He gave the Tofu Restaurant in Palisades Park a great big thumbs up!


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Lewiston woman pleads guilty to stealing $14,000 from gymnastics club's boosters organization
AUBURN, Maine (AP) � A Lewiston woman has pleaded guilty to embezzling almost $14,000 from a youth gymnastics organization where she volunteered as treasurer of the boosters club.
Lisa Tanguay was given two years to repay the $13,664.68 she stole from the Andy Valley Gymnastics Parents Association after pleading guilty to felony theft Thursday in Androscoggin County Superior Court.
The Sun Journal (bit.ly/11nY7zR) reports that if she repays the money and complies with other conditions of her plea agreement, including steering clear of the law, she'll be able to withdraw the felony plea and plead guilty to a misdemeanor theft charge.
The 46-year-old Tanguay told police she took the money with the intention of repaying it because she was experiencing some hard times and feared losing her house.
Information from: Sun-Journal, http://www.sunjournal.com


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Whether you have thoughts of purchasing, renting or just want to explore the possibility of island living, we are delighted you have chosen to visit us. Our online portfolio includes the most extraordinary properties and developments St Lucia has to offer, as well as information about the island events, activities and amenities.
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WASHINGTON COUNTY � The Washington County 2013 Relay For Life held the first Team Meeting of the New Year on Monday at Pattillo�s on the Washington-Holmes Technical Center Campus.
WASHINGTON COUNTY � The Washington County 2013 Relay For Life held the first Team Meeting of the New Year on Monday at Pattillo�s on the Washington-Holmes Technical Center Campus.
Steven Carter welcomed two new teams to the relay. Those teams were Walmart 2114 and First Freewill Baptist Church.
The goal for the relay this year is to raise $60K, we had $13,245.02 before the meeting on Monday night, at which there were several who turned in money. We are sill in need of seven more teams to make our goal of 30 teams. The goal for sponsorships started out as $6,500, we have surpassed that goal and have raised that goal to $10,000.
The committee would like to remind all the teams about the change in how the luminaries are working this year. Luminaries are for a donation of any amount and all monies raised on the luminaria bags will go to the team who sells them. The form still needs to be turned in when the donation for the bag is given.
Roger Whitaker talked to the teams about the CPS 3 Program. This is Cancer Prevention Study 3. To participate you must be between the ages of 30 and 65 and have no personal history of cancer.
For more information on the study email email@example.com or call 1-800-604-5888.
Jimmy Schweinsberg gave a $200 gift card to the team who brought in the most paid teams; there were two teams who each brought in one paid team. The tie ended by counting the money the two teams brought in, there was only $50 separating the two. The team that won the card to help in their fundraising efforts was Grace and Glory Christian School.
The next team meeting will be on Feb. 18 at 6:30 p.m. at Pattillo�s on the WHTC campus.
There was also a car show planed for April 13 at Relay. For more information on the car show see the Relay Events section in the paper.
Notes to team captains
Please sign you teams up on line if you need help contact one of the committee members at the next team meeting.
If you need survivor forms or information contact Connie Wheeler, at 638-2288. All survivor forms must be on the original, she cannot accept photocopies of the form.
If you have any paid sponsors or if your team is working on getting a sponsor please let Kelly know at the next meeting.
Let us know about any fundraisers your team is doing so we can get them in the paper, on Facebook and on the website. You may email your fundraisers to email@example.com.
At the next meeting please be sure to sign up for you campsite and tell us what you are planning on using as a fundraiser on site.
All Luminaria monies need to be turned in to Jessica, even though this money will go towards you team goal.
Make sure you are filling out the sprit point sheets at the meetings.
If you know someone who would be interested in being in the car show let Jimmy or Roger know.


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Announcing the winners of our 1st birthday challenge
The Micro:bit Educational Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of its latest Challenge!
The Challenge we set the micro:bit inventors out there was to use a micro:bit to help the Foundation to celebrate our first Birthday. As always, you responded with an amazing set of ideas and devices and it was an extremely hard job to choose the eventual prize winners. The Foundation's Birthday party would be made extra special and memorable with any one of your inventions!
We couldn't decide on one winner so we're going to award three prizes and we have several people more than worthy of an honourable 'WOW' mention for their wonderful ideas and inventiveness.
Drum roll please, as we announce the winners...
The prize for the best idea
Lorraine, for her RGB box which demonstrates how different colours can be made using red, green and blue lights. A brilliantly simple idea for teaching the concept of RGB, great instructions and fun to play with too!
The prize for best working device
Avye made a Birthday bot using both JavaScript and Python. Displaying wonderful hardware making skills, with expert presentation from this brilliant young lady!
The prize for the best instructions
Raffles Girls Primary School for their Intelligent micro:bit. The girls behind this societal solution from Singapore documented the whole invention process from problem identification to brainstorming and designing the solution. Very cool idea and implementation too!
Honorable "wow" mentions go to...
- Motohiro for an awesome double micro:bit robot with moving arm - View video - Download project
- Vegard for a micro:bit controlled minion singing band - Read the Blog - Download project
- Tamas for this microbit paper piano and smart money box - Download project
Although these didn't win the overall categories, they wowed the judges and deserve a mention for just being cool!


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University Museums
Iowa Quester Glass Collection
BROWSE Iowa Quester Glass Collection
The Iowa Quester Glass Collection now numbers over 1,000 objects ranging from monumental Brilliant Period cut glass to colorful art glass and a diverse array of Early American Pattern Glass. This unique collection, housed in and cared for by Iowa State University Museums, Ames, Iowa, showcases American glass from 1840 to 1950. In 1996, a partnership was formed between the Iowa Questers led by Kay Beckett of the Neta Snook Chapter in Ames, then Iowa Questers' State President, Shirley Foster, and University Museums' director, Lynette Pohlman. At that time, the University Museums was known nationally for having an encyclopedic glass collection as recognized by scholars and the pre-eminent American glass museum, the Corning Museum of Glass of Corning, NY. After a vote from the Iowa Quester State Council the Iowa Quester Glass Collection was formalized with the following mission: "To establish an Iowa Questers Glass Collection, of historic glass from around the world, at Iowa State University Museums. This would provide a State of Iowa resource for preserving, viewing and interpreting historic glass objects. The focus will be on American-made glass from 1840-1945." Now the bulk of the collection is American pressed glass pre-Depression Era most of which would fall under the Early American Pressed Glass (EAPG) group. Iconic works of glass include a Jumbo pattern table set, many pieces of Iowa City and Keota glass, a Rebecca at the Well tall standard compote, Terrestrial Globe pattern butter dish, examples from historical glass, the state's series, and novelties. Thoughtful gifting of three major pressed glass collections just this past two years included over 130 toothpick holders, dozens of whale oil lamps, and a collection of 50+ sauce dishes and other glass works. With the help of many chapters, individuals, partners and collaborators, the collection continues to grow by leaps and bounds!


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How Scarlett Johansson Lured Real Guys into Her Creepy Van in 'Under the Skin'
When most people talk about Under the Skin, they'll reference it as that movie where Scarlett Johansson plays an alien and is naked a lot, but there's so much more under the, er, skin of the film that's worth exploring. Directed by Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast, Birth), Under the Skin is a creepy little sci-fi thinker that burrows itself underneath your skin and tests the way you perceive sexuality. Scarlett Johansson plays an alien who's taken control of a human body in order to drive around in a van for hours on end, luring unsuspecting men into her vehicle and then taking them to an isolated house where one by one they disappear into some sort of black vortex of weird.
Why she's taking the men is really of little relevance, though we suspect their insides are fueling some kind of larger entity we never get to see. But that's not what the movie is about. Under the Skin is actually about sex and sensuality. It's about why we have sex, who we want to have sex with, and what the repercussions are of fulfilling our own desires. While the first half follows Johansson around as she kidnaps horny dudes, the other half turns it around on this alien when she decides she doesn't want to pretend anymore. When curiosity gets the best of her, and she wants to understand firsthand what it is these men crave so much.
The film takes its time getting to all these places, though, more content on setting its dark, cold, high-pitched mood than it is on hitting the necessary plot points, but it's exciting to watch a beautiful actress like Scarlett Johansson play a character who needs to use her beauty as a weapon without ever understanding how powerful that weapon really is. When you add the fact that Johansson actually lured real men into this van who had no idea they were shooting a movie, it just tacks on another fascinating layer to the film's deeper message that looks really can kill in more ways than one.
It's ironic that most people will probably see this film simply because they heard Scarlett Johansson is naked in it, unaware that choice essentially makes them just another character in the movie. Like all these guys in the film -- real men on the streets of Scotland, mind you -- they'll be making a choice based solely on their own selfish sexual desires, only to watch as the film slowly sucks them into this freakishly weird cinematic world where their perverted fantasies will eventually turn around and bite them in the most uncomfortable place: their brain.
Be careful what you wish for.
Note: This piece on Under the Skin was originally published during the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
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These new flexi blackboards are such a great product and great value too. We love blackboards, they are such great tools for kids. You can use them for teaching (putting up this weeks spelling words or literally anything they need to learn or remember), schedules and reminders and so much more. Or they are just good for getting creative with!
Size : 290 x 283 mm (largest one)
Material : Black Polypropylene
Manufacturer suggests using a 3M type product, blue tack or UHU tack.
*Clearance Sale items are strictly limited, no holds, layby's or rainchecks, once stock is sold out we are unable to get anymore in at the sale pricing - so get in quick! Please purchase with care as Clearance Items are not able to be returned due to change of mind, no refunds or exchanges on Clearance Items only.


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Wondrous news, the long-rumored comic book movie The Runaways is finally headed towards production. It's the Marvel project that's more Whedonesque than the Joss Whedon-directed Avengers.
Production Weekly twitter reported that the Runaways will start production next year:
We've heard rumors that Marvel wants Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist director Peter Sollett to adapt Runaways graphic novels. But hopefully we'll have more light shed on this happening next week at Comic Con.
The comic, created by Vaughan, follows a group of teenagers who discover that their parents are part of an evil crime group called the Pride. Shocked, they learn about their genetic powers and set our to right their parents' wrongs. Boasting relatable teen characters and strong female leads, the comic actually featured scripts by Whedon for a while after Vaughan left.


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On Tuesday night, I was lucky enough to be at the 2014 Shell Legacy Award dinner and see a true Houston community hero—and a friend—honored in Brian Ching. If you don't know about the Shell Legacy Award, it was established in 2008 and recognizes and honors individuals who have greatly impacted and improved the local community. Past recipients include former First Lady Barbara Bush, former Secretary of State James Baker III, former Dallas Cowboy and Football Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith (who sat at Brian's table last night) and former Heavyweight Champion George Foreman.
Dynamo President Chris Canetti and the first House that Ching Built recipient Teresa Urbano spoke about Brian's commitment and dedication to making Houston a better place. Chris touched on his accomplishments on and off the field (which are many), and Teresa really brought a personal viewpoint to all Brian has achieved in the community.
The one area where Brian really excelled was around setting the tone in the Dynamo locker room. Not only did he tell his teammates how important it is to give back to the community, he went out and led the way for him. A true leader is one who can talk the talk and then back it up personally by walking the walk. Through his work with Recipe for Success, Habitat for Humanity, Ching's Champions, Building a Better Houston and visiting kids, taking pictures, giving autographs, etc., Brian showed his teammates what it truly means to be part of the Houston community. I think he said it best last night: "Neighbors helping neighbors—that's what it is all about."
We at Dynamo Charities are so glad that we have had the chance to work with Brian—and will continue to work with him to do a third House that Ching Built next year. Thanks to the donation tied to the Shell Legacy Award and additional money that Dynamo Charities has raised, we are only a few thousand dollars short of accomplishing that goal. Get involved—help us get there and then help build the house next year.
And the best news of all: Brian is still with the organization, still using his time and effort to truly Build a Better Houston.
Lots of Dynamo Charities events coming up; follow on twitter @dynamocharities and @dynamochrtytony for up to the minute details, or go to dynamocharities.org.


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Maggie Kobik
A member of the class of 2011, Maggie Kobik majored in anthropology and minored in archaeology and art history.
On campus, she served as a peer mentor and president of the IRC Club. Maggie was also active in Anthropology Cub, WACappella, Vocal Consort, and Intramural Soccer.
She is currently hoping to peruse graduate work in archaeology.
Campus Involvement
- Major: Anthropology
- Minor: Archaeology and Art History
- Peer Mentors
- Anthropology Club
- WACapella
- Vocal Consort
- Intramural Soccer
Hometown? Cape May New Jersey
High School? Lower Cape May Regional High School
Favorite Class at WC? Fundamentals of Visual Design. It sounds like a theory-based class but is actually almost entirely hands-on, allows students to think way outside the box and be as creative as they can, and is really quite therapeutic!
Recommended Professor? Dr McColl. He has so much enthusiasm and wants to learn just as much as he wants to teach.
Most Memorable Experience as a First-Year Student? Halloween. Everyone has a blast dressing up in costumes. I makes you feel like a little kid again!
If I could be an animal, I'd be? A domestic dog. Endless belly rubs, delicious rewards for menial tasks, and extreme enthusiasm for smells!
One Thing You Shouldn't Forget to Pack is? A toothbrush!! Come on everyone, basic hygiene…


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Washington – The United States has some "very good leads" about who carried out the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans including the U.S. ambassador in September, President Barack Obama said in an interview broadcast on Sunday.
Obama told NBC's "Meet the Press" that the United States would carry out all of the recommendations put forward in an independent review of the September 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi in which Ambassador Christopher Stevens was killed.
"We're not going to pretend that this was not a problem. This was a huge problem. And we're going to implement every single recommendation that's been put forward," Obama said in the interview, referring to security issues identified in the review.
"With respect to who carried it out, that's an ongoing investigation. The FBI has sent individuals to Libya repeatedly. We have some very good leads, but this is not something that I'm going to be at liberty to talk about right now," he said.
The interview was conducted on Saturday.