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Best of 2010: Albums
10. Chromeo – Business Casual
This album marks an embrace of the implicit 70s pop elements that had always been present in their sound. While previous albums were mostly 80s dance inspired, this one is a bit more Hall and Oates style, and it generally works really well. It's a bit less kitschy and ironic than previous albums, and the best songs here really showcase Chromeo's strength as song writers. It's not the production that's attention grabbing, it's the ultra smooth melodies and really fun lyrical conceits. The lush string arrangements and wonderful disco bass keep things moving.
9. The New Pornographers – Together
A couple of my longtime favorite bands (notably Belle and Sebastian) released albums this year that weren't notably different from their previous work in form or quality that just didn't hit me for whatever reason. This album is to some extent one of those. I absolutely love the first three New Pornographer albums, but to some extent, I feel like I've absorbed everything they can do. That said, this album stands well next to those first three, hitting power pop highs on "Crash Years," and going more anthemic on "We End Up Together." If not quite as classic as their first three albums, it's still a really satisfying set.
8. Mark Ronson and the Business Intl. - Record Collection
Ronson follows up the great 60s inspired covers set Version with the 80s inspired Record Collection. Full of really great synth pop songs, set off with some well chosen hip hop guest spots, this album sounds very fresh, while still paying respect to Duran Duran and other 80s bands. I love the attack of opening track "Bang Bang Bang." The vocal contributions of ex-Pipette Rose Elinor Dougall are a highlight, particularly on the soaring chorus of "Hey Boy."
7. Gorillaz – Plastic Beach
A bit more downbeat and low key than previous Gorillaz albums, this one took a while to grow on me, but after listening to it several times, it's clear there's a lot of real beauty in the album. Albarn's orchestration is lush and epic at times, and his combination of traditionally rock instrumentation and atmosphere with well chosen hip hop beats and cameos never worked better. It's not about the clash of styles, it's about their seamless integration. Highlights include the sugar high of "Superfast Jellyfish" and driving bass of "Stylo," but the album's great moment is the entrance of an electronic hop hop beat on "Empire Ants," and the layers of dreamy vocal layered on top. It's a very cohesive album, and a great progression for Albarn and the "band."
6. Bryan Ferry – Olympia
I really got into Roxy Music this year after spending the past couple of years listening only to their first glam rock album. I was surprised to find that their later work was even better, particularly the enveloping atmosphere of Avalon. Olympia picks up the sound of late period Roxy Music and applies Bryan Ferry's unparalleled voice to a series of lush soundscapes you can get lost in. His epic transformation of "Song to the Siren" is the high point, but the driving, U2 in a steam room sound of "Heartache by Numbers" jumps out as well. Like a lot of the albums on the list, it's throwing back to an 80s sound, but doing so in a way that emphasizes the timelessness of the best of that music. Ferry was making it back then, and he's still making it now.
5. Goldfrapp – Head First
It really bothered me when Goldfrapp's previous album, "Seventh Tree" came out, and people wrote about how this one must be more confessional and real, since it was based around acoustic instrumentation, not synthesizers. To me, the synthesizer can be one of the most emotional instruments out there, and a lot of the songs that really hit me on a deep level are based around electronic soundscapes. Head First drew attention for its big 80s sounding pop hits like "Rocket" or "Alive," and those songs are fantastic. There's nothing at all wrong with doing a big, fun pop song, but the songs that jump out to me on this album are the ones that use the same style of instrumentation with a slightly darker tone to make for an even more intense emotional experience. "Hunt" and "I Wanna Life" are the ones that jump out to me. "Hunt" uses a wonderful acapella bass line, taking full advantage of Alison's unique voice. "I Wanna Life" is a bit more triumphant, but it's an earned triumph, still a pop song, but one that goes the full gamut of emotion.
4. MGMT – Congratulations
A hugely ambitious, and at times frustrating album, Congratulations is a really bold statement for a band that seemed reluctant to claim its role at the forefront of a zeitgeist. To be honest, I wish they had indulged their poppy side a bit more, and not run away from anthemic songs like "Kids" and "Electric Feel." But, I hugely respect the sonic experimentation and sheer amount of ideas on here. There's about twenty great songs on a ten song album, and that's both the blessing and curse of it. There are moments I wish went on longer, "Someone's Missing" in particular had epic potential, but seemed to end too soon. But, at its best, the sheer variety of sounds and approaches on here is a joy in and of itself. Not every track is great, but it's full of exhilarating moments from the surf rock crescendo that opens the album to the melodic close of "Congratulation."
3. Scissor Sisters – Night Work
In most other years, this would be number one on this list. I already love the band's first two albums, but this takes it to a whole new level, consistently great from beginning to end, this is one of those albums where it feels like every song could be a breakout single. Fusing 70s disco rhythms with gnarly 80s bass and some harder rock influences, it's topped off by Jake Shears' amazing falsetto voice. The dancefloor workout "Any Which Way" is an early highlight, with a chorus bass line that tears things up, but you could just as easily point to the pounding bass of "Whole New Way," disco ecstasy of Sex and Violence of the simultaneously sweet and still uptempo sentiments of "Skin Tight" or "Fire With Fire." It's capped with a prog disco rock epic "Invisible Light" that takes their sound in a slightly satanic direction and manages to both encompass and go beyond everything that's come before.
2. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
Probably the best band in the world today puts out an album that only reinforces how vital and exciting Arcade Fire is. This album is a suite, full of gorgeous songs, energy and yearning that just sound massive. "Empty Room" is a great example of the album's strengths, a song that's bursting with energy, like a firework about to explode. Regine Chassagne jumps out as the album's greatest strength, and her voice is the soaring counterpoint to the instrumental churn. This is another album that in almost any other year would be number one on this list.
1. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
It's been pretty remarkable to watch this album come out and get to know an album that already feels like a timeless classic. It's unanimously been chosen as best album of the year, and there's really no way to argue. A lot of bands on here are doing work that's good, even great, but feels like somebody just doing their thing. With Kanye, as with a lot of really great artists, there's a drive to not just do good work, but a need to be the absolute best. It can lead to idiot moments, like the outburst at the VMAs, but it's that same burning desire that drives him to make an album that goes so far beyond what anyone else in hip hop is attempting that it makes it look like virtually every other artist out there isn't even trying. He's taking what worked in the past and pushing it further, as on "Devil in a New Dress," and creating an entirely new kind of epic hip hop song in "Dark Fantasy" and "All of the Lights."
The opening moments of "Dark Fantasy" announce this as not just a bunch of songs but an album length artistic statement, one that's starting off with the startling slow motion explosion of beats. This is an album that rocks harder than any rock album in recent memory, as on the guitar solos in "Devil in a New Dress" or the prog stomp of "Power." This is how I imagine hip hop would have sounded if it had come out of Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd instead of Funkadelic and Sly and the Family Stone.
When you've got an album so good that even a Chris Rock comedy skit feels like a heartbreaking moment, you know this is something special. I love all the previous Kanye albums, but this is an artistic leap so massive, it's hard to think where he could go from here. Even if it's not a concept album per se, the songs all feel of a piece and flow together such that I would point more to great 'moments' on the album than I would spotlight specific songs. It's a real journey, and just as the opening is the perfect primer for the journey to come, "Lost in the World" is a perfect capper for everything that's come before, a delirious journey out of the darkness and into a kind of acceptance. It's an epic tribal celebration that incorporates elements of contemporary indie rock, gospel choir, tribal drums and a spoken word 60s piece to bring it all to a conclusion. This is a real work of art, and an album that I think will be topping best of the decade lists nine years from now.


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MSO Pops' '60s hits include some bland renditions
Classic pop/rock songs are a unique brand of magic, snapping one back to a time and place that lives only in memory.
The MSO Pops put a veritable hit parade from the '60s on stage Friday evening, in a program entitled "Oh, What a Night!"
Led by guest conductor Stuart Chafetz, the concert featured vocalists Ron Bohmer, Tituss Burgess and Bradley Dean, all veterans of the Broadway stage.
Filled with hits such as "Try a Little Tenderness," "Unchained Melody" and "I Heard it Through the Grapevine," the program was a mixed bag in terms of execution.
Part of the problem was the simple fact that these tunes are imprinted in our memories in specific renditions. Many of the performers that made hits of these songs had little vocal or even general musical training, which gave a raw, earnest quality to their sound.
"Unchained Melody" was a hit, in great part, because of Bobby Hatfield's voice and the simplicity of his interpretation. Although Bohmer gave a warm, gentle rendition of the song, it came across the footlights as careful, a bit deliberate and somehow bland.
In fairness, will anyone ever sing "Respect" with the fire of Aretha? It didn't work Friday evening.
Bohmer did a solid take on Tom Jones with "It's Not Unusual," and Dean offered up a smooth "Strangers in the Night."
Burgess seemed the most comfortable making these songs his own, giving gripping takes on numbers such as "For Once in My Life" and pretty much knocking "Try a Little Tenderness" out of the park.
Burgess and Dean had a few pitch problems over the course of the evening and Burgess' voice was often buried in the sound mix when all three were singing. It was particularly noticeable on "Aquarius" and "Let the Sunshine In."
Part of the program's blandness came from orchestral arrangements that rendered one song strikingly similar to the next, both in tunes featuring the singers and in orchestral medleys. Some pretty unconvincing bits of choreography for the singers didn't help.
If you go
This MSO Pops performance will be repeated 2:30 p.m. Sunday in Uihlein Hall of the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts. For ticket information visit www.mso.org or call (414) 273-7206.
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Curtis Mock is the host of the health club industry's only TV show at www.FitBiz.TV . He currently assists fitness businesses of all sizes as executive director of GymSuccess.com, speaks at Club Industry events and maintains a following of more than 3,000 health club owners subscribed to his Gym Goldmine newsletter. You can reach Mock at [email protected].
Referral programs are a powerful way to generate new memberships. You're probably quite familiar with a variety of methods to generate these referrals. However, referrals can also generate more personal training business.
Think about your current personal training referral strategy. If you think that it's pretty weak, you're not alone. Nearly all health clubs have overlooked the importance of a systematic referral program to increase personal training revenue.
The referral strategy I'd like to present here is simply to give to the referring client the same number of free personal training sessions that are purchased by the person they refer.
How will it benefit you to give away the same number of sessions you sell? Consider this: a current personal training client refers a friend who purchases 12 sessions. You'll give the referring member their next 12 sessions for free. So yes, you break even for those 12 sessions. But think about after those 12 sessions are used. Now you have two clients paying you full price, and you didn't spend a dime on marketing.
This program provides a great word-of-mouth marketing opportunity as well, simply because every new client knows that their friend received free sessions and they also want to refer a friend so that they can get free sessions. Referring a member only gets them a free month, but referring a friend to personal training could save them several hundred dollars. (Side note: This referral strategy works for personal training package sales, not personal training EFT sales.)
Here is a quick look at how to get started with this strategy:
1. Discuss the program with your trainers. They may not be thrilled with the idea of trading dollar for dollar while doubling their initial workload. You have to be prepared to show them the revenue potential of this program in terms of increased clients with less effort. Within a month after someone is referred, the trainer's compensation will increase.
2. Do a big launch to introduce the program to your members. Don't passively promote this or leave it solely up to your trainers. Everyone on your staff needs to be involved in the marketing. In addition to promoting the program heavily to existing personal training clients, be sure to promote it to all of your current members as well. If they have considered investing in personal training, this might be the impetus they need to get started.
3. Present the program initially as limited time only. You can always decide to continue the program indefinitely, but to get the buzz going initially, make it for a "limited time only" to get people referring faster. People tend to respond better when availability is limited.
4. Ask for referrals at the point of sale. When your trainers close a sale, make sure they are informing the new client about the referral program and asking for contact information for referrals. Clients are more likely to provide this information for a few hundred dollars of personal training credit versus a free month of membership.
5. Decide whether to continue the program indefinitely. If you notice that the results of the program taper off, you might consider ending the program and reintroduce it a few months later. This will allow you to promote a "grand re-opening" of the program several times a year. Or if you find it is working well consistently, offer it year round.
Implement this personal training referral program immediately so that you can capitalize on all of the new business during the first quarter of the year.


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(FRANCIS) SCOTT (KEY) FITZGERALD (American) (1896 – 1940)
The American version of the myth of the Dying God flowered with the Jazz age he helped to create and then wilted in obscurity till his death. His books are light hearted adolescent day dreams brilliantly observed with increasingly tragic overtones. "It was fun when we all believed the same things. It was more fun to think we were all young to live together or die together. And none of us anticipated this great loneliness." 'This Side of Paradise' (1920) was a bestseller, his stories include some of his best work ('The Rich Boy', 'Babylon Revisited'). 'The Great Gatsby' (1925) is one of the most perfect American threnodies on lost youth and the Prohibition era. Then followed the slow decline for which his wife Zelda was partly responsible. "She wanted me to work too much for her and not enough for my dream…. I struggled on…… till my heart collapsed and all I cared about was drink and forgetting". (To his daughter in 1938). In those last years he wrote his near masterpiece 'Tender is the Night', faithfully depicting the break-up of his marriage and was at work on an unfinished Hollywood novel 'The Last Tycoon'. His wife was burned to death in a fire in an mental home in 1947. His blend of irony regret and lyrical enjoyment, Gatsby's 'neat sad waltz' has appealed to many other writers.


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Once you've decided to launch your career, follow the steps below for more information on the hiring process.
Step 1: Search Open Positions
Visit the job search page and apply to the job of your choice.
Step 2: Complete Profile and Apply
Create your profile, upload your resume, or create a job agent to receive email updates regarding positions that match your preferences.
Step 3: Recruiter Phone Interview
A recruiter reviews your information against the qualifications for the position. The best-qualified candidates will be contacted for a phone interview.
Step 4: Interview with Hiring Manager
The hiring manager contacts the candidates who have been chosen to move forward in the hiring process.
Step 5: Pre-Employment Screening
An Employment Specialist contacts you for information necessary for final consideration.
Step 6: Employment Offer
An employment offer is extended to the selected candidate. Candidates are notified that the position has been filled.
Step 7: Congratulations!
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With all of the zombie hysteria, we knew Hollywood would do anything to capitalize on the craze. But here, with "Warm Bodies," it looks like the genre may have inspired an interesting film. The take here is bizarre and also interesting, with a zombie having some human feelings and then getting enamored with a living girl. The reviews so far on Rotten Tomatoes are excellent.
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HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has put forward recommendations that all VAT-registered businesses with a turnover below £100,000 should file their returns online.
Such businesses will also be required, under the plans, to make their payments electronically too.
HMRC has set a consultation in motion to pick up views on the changes.
It is proposed that the new regulations would come into effect as from 1 April 2012.
As part of the switch, businesses might also have to register, deregister and alter their details online.
The consultation closes on 31 October.


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I established my own company. Bittenbender Construction in 2003. In 2005, the firm was the first and only woman-owned general contracting company to enter into a union agreement with the united Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners.
My firm has worked as general contractor or construction manager for projects including Sister Cities Park and Pavilion and Discovery Garden in Logan Square, Please Touch Museum, the American Jewish Museum, Franklin Institute's Amazing Machine, and more.
In 2009, I founded the Philadelphia Carpentry Systems, LP, another woman-owned carpentry and exhibit contracting company specializing in high-end custom carpentry.


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Nissan add campaign
Nissan add campaign
GrammarNasty mode ON/: "Ad Campaign", not ADD. "their" commercials, not 'there'. /GrammarNasty OFF.
Tesla might comment on it, but they have plenty of customers, and don't really care how many cars Nissan sells. Nissan is mass-market low-cost moderate-quality. Tesla is niche-market moderate-to-high-cost high-quality.
Very few people buying the Leaf are potential Model S customers.
@BrianH, Very wise insight here. Wy dissapate limited resources on such matters. Guess if you got it on the grammatical thing "you got to flaunt it". Because after all you probably paid "big bucks" to get "it",ha.
I completely disagree that Nissan leaf and tesla model s are "not attracting the same customers.". I am actually going to test drive this leaf for comparison, already have model s reservation too!
According to my local Nissan dealer, current leaf units shipping are "decked out" with all options and going for near $40k. This puts them only $10k away from tesla pricing on 160mi version of model s.
Cnsidering the additional range, acceleration, features, for additional money, i think they are VERY competitive...
Admittedly, I will be in favor of the model s, but the leaf is a slightly cheaper way into EV! I think it is just ford vs BMW or something like that, because it is higher quality/luxury for higher money...
Don't get me wrong, I am MUCH BIGGER FAN of tesla than Nissan, but I can see their value, just a cheaper, more basic car!!
Although, I will probably buy $80k model s, big battery, options...
Tesla doesn't want customers who would be satisfied with a Leaf. They're not worthy!
The Leaf MSRP is around $33k before the $7500 tax credit(what reservation holders can buy the car for), the base Model S is $57.4k.
That is a $25k difference, not $10k.
Not many people who can afford a Model s will go for the Leaf as it is an EV artifact compared to the Model s.
Right Qwk.
And the correct term would be "settle for", not "satisfied with".
I really want the 300 mile version, but my wife thinks we can't even afford the 160 mile version. I just hope I can convince her.
My dealer is selling these for $40k before tax credit, that means model s is $57.5k (before tax credit), difference is $17.5k.
My bad, but not a $25k difference either... The question then becomes "do I want to drive a camry or a Lexus?"
I will personally be buying a model s. But some will buy the leaf and I hope it does well... But you are right it is worse in every way compared to tesla model s, except in two ways (and they are BIG ONEs) price and time to market!
Earliest model s is 1 year away, leaf is here now. This is a big difference! Nissan may have many of these on the road before the first model s is out!
U don't get it, and never will.
Musk WANTS as many EVs as possible on the road. Whoever makes them. He's not in a position to produce millions of cars in the near future (~5 yrs).
Nissan will also have more dealers supporting the cars for repairs and maintenance than Tesla. I for have a Roadster, will have an S and probably one other model, which will most likely be a Leaf. I need a car I don't care so much about.
Well I won't pretend to know what Elon Musk wants or doesn't want, and while I find the Nissan commercial personally annoying (though not as high on the annoyance list as some other things), I really don't think the commercial makes a difference one way or the other.
I doubt anyone will make a buy decision based on a commercial claiming the Leaf being the only car that doesn't use gas. And if they do, they'll soon get a reality check when they brag to friends that they have the only non-gas car. And when they're set straight, Nissan will have managed to annoy their own customers. It's one of those self-healing issues.
I'm pretty sure Nissan is saying they are the only "full line" car company not using gas. Being a career ad guy the splitting of hairs in a 30 second spot are part of life.
When Tesla does come into the market with the Model S I expect a serious ad blitz from Nissan, Chevy and Toyota playing up both their full line and "years of experience" as a foil to Tesla as a new brand. It should be interesting to watch.
I think Tesla should focus on their history of innovation. Let's face it, that is the differentiator for Tesla.
Tesla is the only full line car company not using gas. As in: none of the cars they make uses gas... :-)
But I get what you mean: full line as in covering all market segments. However, the "years of experience" bit could play to people who are more conservative, but they don't tend to buy new stuff like EVs.
I think that after Model S and other EVs with comparable features come out and prove their viability, the demand for EVs will outpace the supply for some years to come.


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Al Qaeda in Iraq conducted two successful strikes in Baghdad and the northern city of Kirkuk. At least seventy Iraqi civilians were killed and more than 300 wounded in four suicide attacks, CNN reported. The attacks were carried out by female terrorists.
The attacks in Baghdad occurred in three separate locations as the female bombers targeted Shia pilgrims traveling on foot to a shrine in the Kadhamiyah district. The three bombers waded into the crowds and detonated their suicide vests within thirty minutes of each other. Thirty-two Iraqis were reported killed and 102 were wounded.
In Kirkuk, a female suicide bomber detonated her vest in the middle of a crowd of more than 5,000 Kurds who gathered to protest the delay of provincial elections in Kirkuk. Just after the detonation, gunmen opened up on the crowd. Thirty-eight Iraqis were killed and 178 were wounded in the deadly attack. Five more were wounded after a clash broke out between "unknown gunmen" and security forces outside the headquarters of the Turkmen Party. A curfew was immediately imposed on the province.
Kirkuk remains a flashpoint for violence as Kurds, Arabs, and Turkmen vie for political power in the northern city. The Kurds seek to bring the oil-rich city into the political sphere of the Kurdistan Regional Government while Kurds have retaken lands from Arabs settled in the region during the rule of Saddam Hussein. Last week, the Iraqi Parliament passed a law delaying provincial elections and setting up a power-sharing agreement between the parties. The Kurdish political parties walked out of Parliament in protest.
Today's attacks demonstrate that while al Qaeda has suffered major setbacks in Iraq, the network still maintains the capacity to conduct high-profile, mass-casualty suicide strikes. The last major attack occurred on July 24, when a female suicide bomber killed eight Awakening fighters and wounded 15 during an attack in Baqubah.
Al Qaeda suicide bombers also struck in Diyala province on July 15. Two suicide bombers detonated their vests within the Saad military camp as Iraqi Army recruits gathered. Twenty-two recruits were killed and more than 55 wounded.
The last major bombing in Baghdad occurred on June 18, when a car bomb detonated in the Shia neighborhood of Hayy Hurriyah in Baghdad's Kadhamiyah district. The US military determined the attack was carried out by cell run by a Mahdi Army leader named Haydar Mahdi Khadum Al Fawadi.
US, Iraqi forces target al Qaeda's networks
The US and Iraqi military have heavily targeted al Qaeda networks in the central and northern provinces over the past two days. Eighty-eight al Qaeda operatives were captured and four were killed during operations.
Today, Coalition special forces captured 30 suspected al Qaeda fighters during raids in Abu Ghraib and Mosul. An al Qaeda cell leader and a bomb maker were captured in Abu Ghraib and a financier for Ninewa province was captured in Mosul. Also, Coalition forces surrounded "a hideout for AQI facilitators and smugglers coming in from Syria" in a village southwest of Mosul, and captured 15 terrorists.
Yesterday, US and Iraqi forces killed four al Qaeda fighters and detained 58 suspects during search operation in Ninewa province. Four Iraqi soldiers were killed during gun battle.
Iraqi and US forces are massing for a major offensive in Diyala province, where al Qaeda still maintains sanctuaries in the rural regions. The operation is expected to begin in early August.
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Cruising down the highway in the passenger seat, I was all set to break out my laptop on this very long (very boring) road trip and get to a bit of work. That is, until I opened the box of the Encore stand our friends at Just Mobile sent over for us to try out. First impression: whoa. Flipping back the lid of the sleek black box, the first thing you may notice is how simple and elegant the design of this stand is. It is a round base, and hinged arm- no fuss, no superfluous gadgetry- just elegant, well designed, and beautiful. And it now sits on top of the laptop I was going to use, propping up my iPad as I type away
The base, a perfect circle, is solid and stable. Through the bumps and occasional deft maneuvers being made by the aggressive driver of a friend I'm sitting next to, this stand hasn't budged a millimeter. Weighted in solid aluminum with an oxidized matte finish, the color actually matches spot on with my Macbook, a subtle but clever design decision. The bottom of the base and the edge around the top where the stand comes into contact with the iPad are covered in heavy duty rubber, so there is no chance of this scratching your tablet.
The arm, adjustable for comfortable viewing or typing, is completely covered in the same heavy duty black rubber, also protecting your iPad from scratches. It is fitted quite tightly and takes a good tug to put it exactly in place, but I appreciate the sturdiness and quality of the hinge.
The simplicity of the design here actually lends this stand to be about as flexible as it could be for holding your tablet in a variety of positions, both in portrait and landscape orientation. I have also tested this with a variety of cases, and this seems to have no problem supporting any.
What I like: This case is well designed, elegant, durable, and stable. Folded up, it would fit neatly into a small pocket in my purse or backpack. The materials- solid aluminum and heavy duty rubber are also durable and we are pleased there is no plastic in this stand. Even with these materials the stand overall is quite lightweight.
What I didn't like: This stand is not a docking station, and while charging you're iPad while using it doesn't interfere with the performance at all, that could have potentially been a nice feature.
To buy or not to buy: This is probably the best stand I've tried to date. If your in the market, it's portable, made of high quality materials, and sturdy. You can't ask for much more.
- Accessory Name: Encore
- Category: iPad Stand
- Company: Just Mobile
- Colors: Aluminum and Black
- Price: $59.99
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Sure, you might have a nice view from your workplace, but how does it stack up to this?
NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio captured this image of fellow astronaut Mike Hopkins on Christmas Eve during the second of their two spacewalks to swap out a crippled pump module on the International Space Station.
Though some folks labeled the image of Hopkins a "selfie," NASA officials said it was Mastracchio who took the picture. (You can see the lens of Mastracchio's camera reflected in the center of Hopkins' helmet visor.)
Video from NBC Nightly News: Fantastic shots from space
Slideshow: Year in Space


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A fitted or cinched waist jacket over wide legged trousers can be a flattering look for our mid-life figures.
There are several flattering tips shown here. The white fitted tank top gives you a smooth line beneath the cinched jacket. The V-neckline of the jacket flatters the face and allows space to show off a statement necklace which also draws the eyes up to your face. The pops of color from accessories allows the winter jacket and pants to transition into early spring. At this time of year when you are longing for spring but it is still snowing and twenty-seven degrees you must get creative if you want to stay warm.
The wide legged pants can be worn with nice flats or low wedges to avoid getting high heels caught in the material as you walk. When wearing black and white or shades of gray it is very uplifting to add brighter colors in a tank top which shows at the neckline and or in the accessories you have chosen.
Always balance a fitted top over a more flowing bottom or vice versa, a fitted bottom under a flowing top. If you show cleavage don't also show legs. Balance sexy with sedate to avoid the dreaded Cougar Effect. A dignified woman never wants to appear she is on the prowl.
Wearing a fitted jacket allows you to have a feminine silhouette while hiding the tummy. Avoid boxy jackets since they add volume and are dated looking. Rather than hiding your tummy they make you look big all over.
Tomorrow is March 1, 2013 which means I will be announcing the winning follower of the blog. One randomly chosen follower will receive the book "The Best of Everything After 50" by Barbara Grufferman, a long string of large glass pearls from Chico's and gold silky evening bag.
Good luck!
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A rocket launch is great fun for everyone. And it starts with a delicious root beer float. (Or, your budding environmentalists can search through the recycling bin for a bottle to repurpose into a rocket.)
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COMO, WESTERN AUSTRALIA--(Marketwire - Jan. 24, 2013) - Medusa Mining Limited ("Medusa" or the "Company") (News - Market indicators)(LSE:MML), advises that it has appointed and welcomes Mr Gary Powell and Attorney Raul Villanueva to the Board of Medusa.
Mr Gary Powell
Mr Gary Powell has been appointed Non-executive Director as of 24 January 2013 and brings Philippines operating experience to the Board. Mr Powell is a geologist with over 30 years of experience working in West Australia, Central Asia and importantly, since 1997, in the Philippines.
Mr Powell has worked for major and junior companies as an employee and on a consulting basis. He was a founding and Managing Director of ASX listed Egerton Gold NL from 1993 to 2000, and more recently a founding, Non-Executive and then Executive Director from 2004 to 2009 of Metals Exploration plc listed on the Alternative Investment Market in the United Kingdom. In his role with Metals Exploration plc, Mr Powell managed the progressing of the Runruno Deposit (1.39 million ounces of gold, and 25.6 million pounds of molybdenum) in the Philippines to the drilled up resource stage (and which is now moving towards construction).
Mr Powell has recently been overseeing the resource drilling at the Company's Bananghilig Project and will continue to consult to the Company as required.
Attorney Raul Villanueva
Attorney Raul Villanueva has been appointed an Executive Director of Medusa as of 24 January 2013 following his recent appointment as President of the Company's Philippines operating company, Philsaga Mining Corporation ("Philsaga") in December 2012. Attorney Villanueva who has been the Executive Vice President of Philsaga since November 2011 was appointed President of Philsaga following the retirement of Mr Samuel Afdal.
Attorney Villanueva who has Bachelor degrees in Economics, Military Science & Tactics, and Law has been a member of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines and an Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law since 1994. He brings a focused approach to improving the operating systems and professionalism of the Company, based on his education and several years of experience in law as well as managing companies and will further align the objectives of the Medusa Group of Companies.
The Board of Directors
Following the appointments of Mr Powell and Attorney Villanueva as Board members, the Medusa Board now comprises:
Geoffrey Davis, Non-executive Chairman of Medusa commented:
"We are delighted to welcome Gary and Raul to the Board of Medusa. They bring a range of key skills and a wealth of experience that will further bolster Medusa's existing strong management team and contribute to the continuing success of the Company in the Philippines.
"I would also like to acknowledge the valuable contribution of Mr Afdal who was a founding Director of Philsaga, and in particular for instituting the very successful social programmes for and within the communities in which the Company's operations are situated."
Medusa Mining est une société de production minière d'or et de cuivre basée en Australie.
Medusa Mining détient divers projets d'exploration aux Philippines.
Ses principaux projets en exploration sont CO-O, CORPLEX, ABACUS, ANOLING et APICAL aux Philippines.
La valeur de son action a atteint son plus haut niveau récent le 03 juin 2011 à 8,60 AU$, et son plus bas niveau récent le 27 juin 2017 à 0,27 AU$.
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Or do. I love myself some symbols. And symbology is such a terrific thing to teach a very young kid, in my opinion, because so many of the things that they'll be asked to do in structured learning use symbols--reading, writing, math, cryptology, etc. Call me crazy, but I think it's something very important for even a four-year-old to understand overtly that C-A-T represents "cat," but is not cat itself (This is not a pipe, y'all). That might turn them into the eighteen-year-old freshman comp students who CAN get it through their thick skulls that although King Kong is, yes, a giant gorilla, he represents, (at least in the 1930s version) a racist fear of African-Americans. And write a paper about it. A paper with a thesis, please.
So lately the girls have been really into flags, which is apparently our current symbol of choice. Will enjoys leafing through our children's atlas together, having me name the country that goes with the flag on each page, and I've been thinking about making some kind of puzzle of world flags, because Sydney likes puzzles...but anyway, I'm digressing.
Will's been asking lately to go again to our sometimes wandering destination, Rose Hill Cemetery (Hoagy Carmichael! Alfred Kinsey!), so since it's nearly Independence Day, I involved them first in a project to make some American flags that we could put on the graves of soldiers at the cemetery. I gathered up red, white and blue cardstock and scrapbook paper, beads and buttons, popsicle sticks, crayons and markers and colored pencils, and pulled up a nice, big picture of the American flag on the computer screen.
The results? Beautiful. Creative. Evocative. Patriotic.
Flag-like? Ummm...
Here's Willow with her flag, at the grave of a World War I soldier that we found:
The scrapbook paper is red and white and blue, you see, and the popsicle sticks are red, and the stones and shells are white.
Here's Syd's, with red and white and blue scrapbook paper and red and white and blue buttons and a big orange carrot that she's munching as hard as she can:
Her soldier was also from World War I. And lest you think that we were simply using these belated gentlemen as mere canvasses for our artwork, I'll have you know that we also swept their markers and pulled the weeds and long grasses from around them, leaving quite the pretty, if inexplicable, picture for other passers-by. I'm glad that neither of our soldiers actually died during the war (Sydney's soldier was a bugler!), because although the girls and I talk about soldiers oddly often, I haven't yet happened to bring up the fact that soldiers, you know, fight--I tell the girls that soldiers work for our country and do jobs for everyone who lives here, so they probably think that they're like administrators, or garbagemen, or something. Who knows.
Of course, the other fun thing to do (along with running around all that nice, grassy space and wishing you could climb all the gravestones but being told by your mother that despite all appearances, this is actually NOT a playground, both feet on the ground please) is to pick out cool stuff on the marker stones, especially cool, probably, because of Bloomington's own glorious limestone-carving history, which means that scattered among the generic headstones, there are some true gems: And, of course, intimations of one's own mortality:
I'm trying to put together an entire alphabet from gravestone photos, which sounds kind of morbid but is actually pretty awesome (and morbid, yes), so although the girls and I are going blueberry-picking tomorrow, we'll likely be back out at Rose Hill Cemetery the next day.
The day after that, we're totally making another 64-page map of the United States.


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As the children take to the streets tonight in search of a trick-or-treat, you might be wondering the best way to protect your house from some heavy candy-looting. In 1976, Ed Diener and his colleagues asked a similar question, though they were more interested in the conditions that prompted trick-or-treaters to overindulge and take more than they should. Halloween is a holiday which encourages people to dress up in costumes and roam the streets in large groups - the perfect recipe for deindividuation. Deindividuation occurs when people's own sense of individuality is diminished and can result in antisocial behaviors. Diener used Halloween as an opportunity to research how anonymity, group size, and feelings of responsibility influence people's willingness to steal extra candy and money.
The scene: Imagine that you come up to a house with a table, on one side is a bowl full of individually wrapped bite-sized candy bars, about 2 feet away on the other side is a bowl full of pennies and nickels. Nearby is a decorative backdrop with a peep hole that camouflages an unobtrusive observer. When you arrive at the door, a woman you have never met greets you.


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Hypernym(s): termination, ending, conclusion
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· plunder (a town) after capture; "the barbarians sacked Rome"
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Hypernym(s): take
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Hypernym(s): remove
5. sack - verb
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Synonym(s): net, sack_up, clear
Hypernym(s): profit, gain, benefit
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Hello. I recently picked up a very lightly used S&W Model 60-8 with 3" bbl and adjustable sights. A routine once-over didn't result in any surprises or reveal anything negative...other than the rubber grips, which happened to be a style I just don't care for.
Getting it home, I cleaned it up, made another check, more slowly this time, and changed the inexpensive rubber grips with a cheap wooden pair that felt better to me. I am not sure if they'll stay on the gun or not. (They definitely will not if I opt to use this one as a defensive arm. The reason is two-fold: They will not work with speedloaders for one and when ejecting fired cases, the one at the bottom (six-o'clock) position is impeded from being ejected by the relatively thick grip panel. Modification of these stocks or using a different style would be necessary in my opinion.)
My only other 3" Model 60 was one having the J-frame style square butt, a heavy bbl with no shroud. It sort of resembled a shrunken Model 64. I believe that this is my first one with adjustable sights.(The ammunition shown is a handload using 4.6 grains of Unique beneath a Hornady 158-gr. LSWCHP. This hits about 860 ft/sec from other 3" guns I own, though I have not yet chronographed it through this one.)
I was surprised to see the "NY-1" marking on this little shooter as it has a spur hammer and is capable of both double and single-action fire. The only revolvers I've seen with such markings were K-frames having bobbed hammer spurs and DAO.
Despite having been a police department tactical team leader and firearm instructor for 11 years, I do not feel the need for "tactical" handguns and by modern standards, I reckon this would not be one. Nor do I feel the need to make all of my range visits "practical", defensive style shooting. For me, fun still rates high on my list, right up there with my multitudenous regrets for letting all of the S&W Kit-Guns I've owned in past decades get away. For now, I envision this little 60-8 with perhaps a hard cast SWC loaded to standard velocities as a sort of substitute. I might just wind up shooting it at paper simply because I like to. That's good enough for me. Years ago, I was told by a shooting legend (in his own mind) that I obviously didn't understand "the purpose of the handgun", for if I did, I wouldn't even own a revolver, just a certain style and caliber autoloader. I didn't mention to the blowhard that I already owned 11 of the pistols he was pushing. I didn't bother to mention that the purpose of my handguns is whatever I want it to be. I suggest that the same is true for any handgun owner or shooter. The purpose of their handguns is whatever they desire.
I've been extremely busy lately with little time to shoot but today I managed a few minutes at the range with the little S&W. It was off-and-on windy and looked like rain was a distinct possibility, so I only shot at 12 yards, using a two-hand hold from a standing position. I used two loads, both from Georgia Arms. One was their light 125-gr. LFP at a listed velocity of 750 ft/sec and the other a plated flat point, although they describe it as a SWC. It's velocity is listed at 800 ft/sec. I didn't have time to chronograph either load and it was so overcast that I'm not sure I could have.
I began by firing 5 rounds of the 125-gr. load and discovered that the POI was slightly below the POA at 12-yards. Making a vertical sight adjustment, I got it to put the holes where I wanted them, at least at this distance.
In this 20-shot group, I think that the true POI is just below the center of the dark 2" bullseye and that the hits just above midline are errors on my part.
Likewise, in this 20-shot group using the heavier 158-gr load, I think that hits at or below the midline are my fault. It's fairly obvious that the little gun was intially sighted in for the 158-gr. bullet.
I find it a good thing that at this distance at least, either load hits close enough to POA for decent "fun shooting" or even some target-shooting w/o having to change the sights.
The action on the little thing was slicker than I expected and I feared that perhaps a too-light mainspring had been substituted.
Today's session consisted only of about 80 shots of Georgia Arms' "canned heat" .38 Special ammunition but there were no misfires and primer strikes appear adequate. That is not sufficient shooting for me to trust the gun for anything "serious" but that's no great "loss" as I have plenty of "serious" ones already.
On a ranch where I frequently help a friend do chores, there were untold numbers of water moccasins in years past. I am not sure why as there was but a couple of ponds and they were not near one another. There is a creek on it, but it is only on one border. Anyway, the stinkin' things were all over. I wacked many to death with tree limbs but shot a few, too.
Though I've not seen any rabid critters there, I have seen a rabid fox or two over the years and perhaps four rabid skunks. All attacked when they heard or smelled me (I'm not sure which...if either) and in each case a firearm (.22 rifle in one case, and 9mm Hi Power in the others) stopped them and humanely dispatched them.
Perhaps this little 3" .38 Special will make a most compact, yet easy-to-shoot sidearm for such considerations?
...or maybe the truth is that I just like the darned thing.
First Shots: S&W Model 60-8 w/3" Bbl...
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I like it. Can I have it?
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John Q. Adams
South Academy street about five
Adams died in November, 1923.
, and Mrs. Hattie Blatchford Utica
Nov. 27, 1926
John Quincy Adams, a Familiar
Figure passes
In the passing of Mr. Adams,
nearly the last of the residents of
that generation, has passed from
the community. Mr. Adams has
been remarkably well this past
fall, walking to the village and do-
ing some chores about the house,
so that his death came as a shock
to the family and friends. He
passed away at his late home on
o'clock on November 27, 1926.
Mr. Adams was the son of Hor-
ace and Betsy Cox Adams and
was born in Stafford (NY) March 17,
He came as a lad, to work for
his uncle, Amos Adams who own-
ed the present
Irving E. Dutton
Farm. On November 8, 1859 he
was united in marriage with Miss
Maria Cox and commenced house-
keeping on the Arnold Cox farm,
which he purchased. He was, with
his wife, active members of the
West Middlebury Baptist church,
retaining his membership there.
About 27 years ago Mr. Adams re-
moved to Wyoming (NY), purchasing
the Watkins property on South
Academy street, and there Mrs.
Mr. Adams was particularly af-
flicted with deafness and has not
mingled in the social life of the
village, even, not attending the
church services for several years.
Mr. Adams is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. Eugene Jones of
, nine grandchildren Wyoming
and fourteen great grandchildren.
The funeral was held from the
late home on
South Academy St.,
Tuesday afternoon, at two o'c-
clock. The Rev. C. H. Otto of the
Baptist church had chare of the
services. The interment was in
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Education and Awards
Miller Associate Professor, 2014-present, University of Kansas
Assistant Professor, 2010-2014, University of Notre Dame
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2006-2010, University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
PhD, 2002-2006, Princeton University
National Science Foundation Career Award, 2014-2019
Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013
Paul Holloway Award, American Vacuum Society, 2012
Gerhard Ertl (Nobel Laureate 2007) Young Investigator Award (Finalist Prize), 2010
Eugene P. Wigner (Nobel Laureate 1963) Fellowship, ORNL, 2010
IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists (Dissertation), 2008
Research Interests
Heterogeneous catalysis is crucial for chemical and energy transformation. Our research focuses on the interdisciplinary field of heterogeneous catalysis, nanoscience, materials chemistry, and surface science. We are interested in important catalytic reactions of chemical and energy transformations. The goals of our research projects are to achieve fundamental understanding of important catalytic reactions at molecular level and develop efficient nanocomposite catalytic systems through integration of synthesis, evaluation of catalytic performance, and in-situ and operando characterizations.
We perform in-situ/operando characterization with our laboratory-based ambient pressure photoelectron spectrometer and ambient pressure high temperature scanning tunneling microscope in our group. These studies provide in-situ information of nanocatalysts under a reaction condition or during catalysis.
Our Specific Projects
- Synthesis and catalysis of shape-controlled early transition metal oxide and mixed transition metal oxide
In this project, transition metal oxide and mixed oxide are synthesized. Fundamental studies of catalysis in them are performed. For example, Co3O4 nanorods were synthesized. CoO nanorods formed from Co3O4 exits high selective and activity for reduction of NO with CO at relatively low reaction temperature. Mixed oxides such as Co3-xNixO4 were synthesized. They are highly active for complete oxidation of methane.
- Preparation and catalysis of singly dispersed metal atoms on oxide (single atom catalyst)
In this project, precious metal atoms such as Pt atoms are anchored on surface of oxide such as Co3O4. They exhibit low activation barrier for reactions including water gas shift.
- Synthesis and catalysis of singly dispersed bimetallic site catalyst
In this project, bimetallic sites were prepared through a controlled oxidation and reduction. These sites are singly dispersed on an oxide support. The cationic state of bimetallic sites in these catalysts offers different catalytic performances in contrast to bimetallic sites of a bimetallic nanoparticle.
- Catalysis and in-situ studies of shape-controlled bimetallic nanoparticle catalyst
In this project, bimetallic nanoparticles with well controlled shape such as Rh-Pd nanocubes are used as catalysts for evaluation of catalytic performances and in-situ characterization. Correlation between surface structure and catalytic performance is built.
- Restructuring surface structure of nanoparticle catalyst toward achieving better catalytic performance
In this project, a gas phase reaction on a bimetallic nanoparticle is performed to restructure the surface to tune its catalytic performance. One example is the restructured Pt-Cu nanocubes exhibit much high catalytic activity for CO oxidation than as-synthesized one.
- Development of new catalysts for intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cell technology
In this project, catalysts with high activity in reforming methane at an intermediate temperature are prepared for intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cell process.
- Synthesis and in-situ studies of mesoporous metal catalysts
In this project, Fe-based mesoporous metal catalysts are being developed for important chemical transformations including selective oxidation and hydrogenation. Fundamental understanding of catalysis in this type of materials will be achieved through in-situ studies.
- Methane conversion on zeolite anchored with transition metal atoms
In this project, zeolites such as ZSM5 is used to anchor atoms of a transition metal for catalytic conversion of CH4 to methanol and other oxygenates in a liquid phase.
- Structural evolution of nanoparticle catalysts under reaction conditions or during catalysis
In this project, structural evolution of metal and oxide nanocatalysts in gas phase of reactant is tracked with in-situ characterization techniques including ambient pressure XPS, ambient pressure STM, environmental TEM, and in-situ EXAFS.
- Fundamental studies of surface structure and chemistry of metal and oxide model catalysts in gas phase or during catalysis
In this project, surface structure and chemistry of model catalysts including Rh(110) and Co3O4 thin film are studied with AP-STM and AP-XPS toward building a correlation between surface structure/chemistry and the corresponding catalytic performance for a fundamental understanding of prototype catalytic reactions.
- Fundamental understanding of surface of photocatalyst and its cocatalysts
In this project, surface of a photocatalysts and cocatalysts of photocatalytic system active for water spitting is studied by using in-situ surface analytic techniques with a goal of understanding the photocatalytic process from surface science point of view.
- Instrumentation for tracking surface of metal or oxide at solid-gas and solid-liquid interfaces
In this project, instrumentation toward tracking surface structure and chemistry of nanocatalysts buried in a gas phase with higher pressure or liquid phase of a reactant is being developed.


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Image Stacking
Image stacking is the process of merging two or more registered images together in order to enhance detail, suppress noise, remove motion artifacts, or otherwise leverage data contained across multiple exposures of the same scene.
If you answered yes to the above questions, you might like Image Stacking! As a general concept it has many applications; for creative work the possibility of removing moving subjects - whether tourists at a busy site, or people milling around in the lobby mucking up your soon-to-be Architectural Digest cover shot - creates new opportunities for shooting *around* people, cars, and other obnoxious facts of life for photographers.
Using Adobe Photoshop CS3
Adobe Photoshop CS3, currently (December 2006) in public beta, has added Image Stacks to its Smart Objects feature. This feature allows adding 2 or more bitmaps to a Smart Object, and then applying an Stack Mode to perform a transformation across the images in the stack. CS3 Image Stacks come out of the box with a number of Stack Modes, including such useful functions as Mean and Median modes.
How to create an Image Stack in Photoshop CS3
- Choose "File > Scripts > Load Files into Stack" from the menu;
- Click the "Browse" button and select 2 or more images; if you need sample images, try the package I used by clicking here
- Check the "Create Smart Object after Loading Layers" checkbox
- Click "OK"
When the script completes you will have a new Photoshop document with a single Smart Object layer. This layer type may be saved in PSD, PSB, or Layered TIFF file formats from Photoshop CS3, and will only be readable by Photoshop CS3 and later.
How to use your image stack to remove motion artifacts
This is a very useful function for panoramic photographers working in situations like crowds where there is a lot of objects moving in the frame. With enough exposures of the same scene, with the same framing, you can remove all the people from a crowded street with this simple process, leaving only the unmoving parts of the scene - the street, the sky, etc.
- Select your Smart Object (it must have an Image Stack) in the layers palette in Photoshop
- Chose "Layer > Smart Objects > Stack Mode > Median" from the menu
This applies a non-destructive Media filter on all of the images contained within your Smart Object's Image Stack. If all went right you should have preserved only those parts of all the images which are least changing.
If you used my sample images for this tutorial you should now have a view of the freeway with no cars on it. Magic? No, just simple math, but it was never so easy in Photoshop until now!


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Join us this Summer for some fun, all new Art projects sure to inspire your budding young Artist! Children will learn to work in Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Watercolours, Pastels, Clay, and more! Due to the popularity of this camp register early to not miss out, as spaces fill fast! Each week we will be creating new art pieces, perfect for children who wish to register for multiple weeks. We do recommend contacting the studio first, if you should wish to register for 3 weeks or more. Full/Extended Day programming is ideal for children 6-13 years of age, who love to create all things Art, and can work on one art piece for an extended period of time. We do however allow for children 5-6 years of age from time to time in a full day program, if the Studio agrees they are ready for a full day camp. Please ask for more details. Half Day camp is great for children ages 5-13. Summer Camp Week #8 – Program Hours:
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It's the film franchise that's no threat to self-destruct.
As the latest filmmaker to put Tom Cruise's secret agent Ethan Hunt through a new roster of nail-biting assignments in "Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol," director Brad Bird not only bolstered the long-running small-screen-to-cinema property, he also proved that he's as adept at crafting live-action thrills as he was in such Pixar insta-classics as "The Incredibles" and "Ratatouille." Just in time for "M:I4" to explode onto home video April 17, PopcornBiz debriefs Bird on a shoot that sounds as down-to-the-wire as one of those impossible missions.
If you're a subscriber to the auteur theory, can you see some connective visual or storytelling elements between 'M:I4' and your other films, whether live action or animated?
I am probably the worst person to ask about it, because I don't stand outside of my style. I don't look at something and go, 'Oh, this will be a good example of my touch.' I just kind of go, 'Whoa, this would be cool,' and then whatever it is that I think is cool, if there's any common elements then that becomes my style, quote-unquote. So I think that others probably are better to judge what the common elements are, but a lot of people have remarked that the movie does feel like my other films in a lot of ways.
Because of the size and scope of this film and the speed in which you had to shoot it, I've gotten the impression that you had to go with the flow a lot and trust your creative instincts on the spot rather than elaborately pre-plan as you've done in animation. Was that an easy jump to make?
Well, it turned out to be all right. It was scary because I'm used to kind of planning things a little more, and I got to plan three sequences in the movie. I got to do pre-visualization on three sequences in the movie: the tower climb, the car park thing and then I did about half of the sandstorm chase in pre-viz so that I knew how I wanted it done before we got to shoot it. But the rest of the movie, there were a lot of other very complex sequences that I didn't have that luxury of pre-planning on, like the prison escape and the fight with the two girls and the Indian party sequence – all of that stuff where we kind of had to do it on the fly. I think the fact that I came from animation and I have boarded things myself and I'm used to pre-planning actually was liberating, because I could imagine how something it was going to cut together on the fly. I didn't know whether it was going to work out or not, but there wasn't time for anything else. Literally I was coming back to my apartment at 11-something at night and I had to be up at 5:30, and when you're wound up it's also hard to go to sleep. You don't want to become a slave to something like sleeping pills because that catches up with you after a while. So, all I'm saying is that very quickly they kept saying, 'You have to have a shot list,' and pretty quickly I came back to them and I went, 'When am I going to do this shot list?' I just said, 'Look, I've got sleep and I've got a shot list. Which one do you think that I can do without?' They realized, 'Okay, that's the way.' So I just had my first shot ready in the morning when I arrived. I had a shot for them to work on and while they were working on that shot I could start to line up the others. I knew how many set-ups I could get in a day, but I was happy when we got to the editing room after it was all over. I didn't even have time to look at the rushes. So I was working with a great cinematographer, Robert Elswit, and I had a great editor and everything like that, but it wasn't until I got back and could really review the footage [to see] that the stuff pretty much cut together like I had hoped it would. That was a real relief.
Talk about working with a) Tom Cruise, the producer, b) Tom Cruise, the actor and c) Tom Cruise, the guy who's itching to do any stunt that you will let him do.
He's very much the same guy, in that he has two settings and those are off and a hundred and fifty percent. There is no 80% or 25% percent. He's either all in or he's not in, so when you want to do something he's absolutely 400% there and ready to go and does his homework and knows what he's doing. It's a real pleasure – and it's a challenge because you have to be on your game. You can't be anything less than completely ready because he's completely ready, but I love working with people like that. That's how I like to work, so to work with someone that not only has the amazing amount of knowledge that he does, but he's also delighted to make films – he's not just doing it, he loves it. He loves silent films and foreign films and new films and old films. He is like talking to a dolphin about, like, 'Do you like being in the ocean?' He loves that world and that medium. It's infectious.
What's your thinking now, given the creative and commercial success of your first foray into live action, as to how you'll balance things now between that and animation? Do you have ideas of how you want to proceed?
I have things that I want to do. It's whether or not I can get other people interested in doing them. That's always up for grabs. I think there's less resistance to things now than there's ever been which is really nice, but I think I don't have any disciplined plan about doing one animation film and then you do three live action films and then another animation film. I'm literally excited by certain ideas and some of them are ideas I see as being animated film and some of them I see as being live action films. It's just a matter of what idea you're most excited about that that other people will finance. I don't take anything for granted. I'm just happy to be working in the medium that I love. I don't have any giant master plan. I just have a bunch of ideas that I'd love to do.
What was the biggest creative/professional lesson that you learned coming out of 'Mission: Impossible 4'?
I think the biggest challenge was stamina, because there's a lot of pressure and you have to kind of power through it, but I think in terms of a working method it was allowing options later on. I came from animation with a very…I mean, even in animation I'm known as kind of a pre-planner to end all pre-planners. My storyboards are much more accurate to the finished film than most people's are. Most people change things more as they go on, and I work longer on the storyboards to get it close to how I would like to see it in the film and then it goes a little quicker to film, which is not the way that people usually do it. I was trained in the Disney method, where you usually kind of use storyboards as a way to get ideas represented rather than getting particular about how they're staged, but that's not how I think so I tend to get in to the staging early on. I think that it was kind of being a little looser about that and allowing for spontaneity on the floor, which I do in animation in the vocal tracks, but to see it extend to even camera work and stuff like that where you have to be alive to things that are happening right there, that was a good lesson. By the end of the film I think I was approaching things differently than I was at the beginning of the film.
Do you imagine that your films will always have a degree of high visual spectacle, or do you have a small, maybe more performance- and dialog-driven piece in mind? Do you want your filmography to get that diverse?
I enjoy dialog. I've written the other films that I've made. I have some writing in 'Mission,' but I didn't write 'Mission,' so I love dialog as much as the next guy. I tend to gravitate towards things that are more visual. I love a lot of different kinds of filmmakers. Usually, if you look on my shelf, the things that I actually buy, the films that I like to see more than once, they're not the kind of actors sitting around and talking movies as much. I like those movies and I see those movies, but I don't re-watch those movies. The movies that I re-watch are firing on all cylinders to me. They're not only good actor films, but they're good cinematographer films and they're good set design films and they have good sound design. I really love that film is a visual medium and I tend to gravitate towards that. But I would never say no to an idea that was a smaller, more personal thing, that was just a really good character piece. I would love to think that I could see the value in that. It's just not what I'm gravitating to right now. I tend to like big experiences.
"Mission: Impossible 4" Director Brad Bird Got 400% From Tom Cruise
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South Carolina's coast is home to one of the country's richest culinary traditions and most delicious recipes, including Shrimp and Grits, Lowcountry Boil, She-crab Soup, and Hoppin' John.
The names of native Lowcountry dishes are almost as colorful as the fresh local ingredients that go into them: she-crab soup, Frogmore stew, and hoppin' John, for instance.
But just what, exactly, is Lowcountry?
According to John Martin Taylor―author of Hoppin' John's Lowcountry Cooking and arguably the foremost authority on the region's cuisine―this area stretches along the South Carolina coast from the Savannah River in Georgia north to Pawley's Island. Inland it encompasses about 80 miles of low-elevation land.
Think saltwater marsh and Spanish moss hanging from live oaks, and you're thinking Lowcountry.
The Lowcountry teems with aquatic life, and for centuries local cooks have turned to the water for culinary inspiration. Crabs, shrimp, fish, and oysters form the basis of any traditional menu, and seafood dishes are offered at every meal.
Rice, grits, and the produce of the coastal plain also play an instrumental role in Lowcountry cooking. Rice was introduced by happenstance in the late 17th century and immediately began to thrive in the lush climate. Although rice cultivation ended after the Civil War, it has reemerged in recent decades. Whether served as a simple side or cooked with tomatoes and other vegetables to make pilau (pronounced PER-low), rice is integral to the region's meals.
The next time you're in Charleston or any of the small towns and islands along the coast of South Carolina, be sure to try one of the following dishes and enjoy a taste of the Lowcountry.
Frogmore Stew
Despite its title, this dish does not contain frog―it gets its name from the tiny coastal South Carolina town of Frogmore. Also known as Lowcountry boil, this stew is a one-pot dish of shrimp, corn-on-the-cob, and spicy sausage all boiled together and then served up on a plate.
She-crab Soup
Considered by many to be Charleston's quintessential dish, the soup is so named because eggs from the female crab give it a unique taste. This creamy delicacy is almost always flavored with a generous helping of sherry.
Hoppin' John
Rice cooked with black-eyed peas and a few other basic ingredients make up this essential regional dish. Although it's consumed without fail on New Year's Day in order to bring luck, it can be found on any true Lowcountry menu year-round.
Shrimp and Grits
Whether you're in the mood for a hearty breakfast or a simple one-course dinner, turn to a plate of shrimp and grits. Natives enjoy their grits creamy, topped with shrimp, and smothered in a simple, rich gravy. You will, too.
Huguenot Torte
When French Huguenots came to the Charleston area in the late 17th century, they brought along a favorite dessert. The cake was quickly given a makeover with local ingredients and remains one of the best ways to top off a Lowcountry meal.
If you're interested in delving deeper into the mouthwatering world of Lowcountry cuisine, we recommend the following cookbooks: the widely acclaimed Hoppin' John's Lowcountry Cooking by John Martin Taylor, and Sallie Ann Robinson's Gullah Home Cooking the Daufuskie Way , which includes a forward by Pat Conroy―the Lowcountry's favorite native son.


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Panhandle Humanists and Freethought Oasis welcome Recovering From Religion Executive Director Jerry DeWitt to speak on Embracing Identity Suicide: How an evangelical minister went from faith to freedom.
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Texas Secretary of State, Statutory Filings Division, Statutory Documents Section:
An Inventory of Rosters of Physical Therapists at the Texas State Archives, 1972-1995
Agency History
The Texas Board of Physical Therapy Examiners was created in 1971 (Senate Bill 344, 62nd Legislature, Regular Session). Its functions include the examining and licensing of all physical therapists and physical therapist assistants, and the registration and regulation of physical therapy facilities. The board is authorized to revoke or suspend licenses and to reprimand or place on probation licensed practitioners who violate the Texas Physical Therapy Practice Act or board rules. More than 8,600 physical therapists and physical therapist assistants held active licenses in 1995.
The law required the board to transmit an annual list of all licensed physical therapy practitioners to the Texas Secretary of State, which then transferred the list to the Texas State Archives for distribution to the public on request. This distribution arrangement lasted through 1995.
The Statutory Documents Section of the Texas Secretary of State appoints, reappoints, and commissions all notaries public for the state; records the charters of home rule cities; files amendments of charters of incorporated towns and villages; files bonds or copies of bonds for state officers and state employees, members of governing bodies of certain constitutionally authorized political subdivisions, and general law districts; files the constitutional statement of bribery; issues cards to all labor organizers in the state; files labor union annual reports; registers business opportunity sellers in Texas; registers health spas, athlete agents, and credit service organizations; licenses and regulates automobile clubs; files deeds of cession; and files rosters of numerous licensed professionals.
In 1999, the 76th Texas Legislature, Regular Session (Senate Bill 234), removed the requirement to file rosters of licensees with the Texas Secretary of State, for ten state regulatory agencies. In addition to physical therapists, this included social workers, engineers, chiropracters, psychologists, optometrists, funeral directors, occupational therapists, property tax professionals, and orthotics/prosthetics providers. Each of these boards is still required to provide public access to those rosters.
Scope and Contents of the Records
These records consist of computer printouts of rosters of physical therapists and physical therapist assistants licensed to practice in the State of Texas. These rosters date 1972-1995. The Texas Board of Physical Therapy Examiners, which does the actual licensing of physical therapists, furnished the rosters annually to the Texas Secretary of State. The rosters list all licensed physical therapists and physical therapist assistants in Texas, and include license number, name, address, status (active, expired less than 2 years, expired greater than 2 years), license date, type of license (therapist, therapist assistant), and license expiration date. In several rosters, temporary licenses are listed in a separate printout. In 1992 the Board of Physical Therapy Examiners requested that the Texas State Library, when it received requests for copies of the list from the public, use a second roster, which eliminated names of persons whose licenses had been expired more than five years (both copies are included in these records).
License verification for physical therapists is now possible by searching an on-line database at http://www.ecptote.state.tx.us/license/verify_physical_therapist.php.
To prepare this inventory, the described materials were cursorily reviewed to delineate series, to confirm the accuracy of contents lists, to provide an estimate of dates covered, and to determine record types.
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Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Rosters of physical therapists, Statutory Documents Section, Statutory Filings Division, Texas Secretary of State. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Accession Information
Accession numbers: 1980/184, 1981/144, 1982/318, 1983/150, 1984/159, 1985/107, 1986/090, 1986/121, 1987/103, 1987/106, 1988/109, 1989/110, 1989/112, 1989/139, 1990/121, 1991/110, 1991/125, 1992/073, 1992/079, 1993/134, 1994/075, 1995/105
These records were transferred to the Archives and Information Services Division of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission by the Statutory Documents Section of the Statutory Filings Division of the Texas Secretary of State on April 15, 1980; April 20, 1981; June 4, 1982; May 3, 1983; June 13, 1984; April 18, 1985; February 7 and March 17, 1986; March 13, 1987; March 10, 1988; March 14, 1989; April 4, 1990; March 13, 1991; March 2, 1992; March 11, 1993; March 8, 1994; and April 10, 1995; and by the Texas Board of Physical Therapy Examiners on March 11, 1987; March 13, 1989; May 13, 1989; April 3, 1991; and March 17, 1992.
Processing Information
Paul Beck, April 1995
Tony Black, March 2003
Detailed Description of the Records