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Lamented Jack ! And here his malt he pil'd,
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Squeak, not unconscious of their father's guilt.
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Weeks after the Guam Blog filed a request with police for information about an internal investigation regarding the Blue House case, the department has yet to respond to the request. The request concerns an investigation called for by former Police Chief Paul Suba regarding alleged inappropriate police involvement in a Tamuning brothel. The investigation was ordered by Paul Suba in 2008, according to Guam Blog files, and was "in response to information received about Blue House victims/witnesses who alleged a Mario, Tony and another officer frequented the Blue House." But the result of Suba's investigation, which could shed light on whether the department knew of any officer's involvement in the brothel, remains a mystery. A series of reports by the Guam Blog last year prompted the government to launch a special investigation into Blue House, resulting in the indictment of three police officers. During the course of that special investigation, the fact that Suba had ordered a similar investigation years earlier was made public. But it still is unclear if Suba's investigation ever was completed or what it found. If the police department investigated the allegations against officers internally in 2008, the agency was required by local law to release a report on the findings on the department website. There are no findings on the website for that investigation. On April 25, the Pacific Daily News filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the department, asking for documents related to Suba's call for an investigation. The request asked for all documents related to the investigation, including the original complaint and testimonies as well as any conclusions made and what action, if any, was taken against anybody found to have been involved with the brothel. But two weeks after Chief Fred Bordallo acknowledged his receipt of the request, the newspaper hasn't received a response approving or denying it. Under Guam's Sunshine Law, government agencies are required to release public documents within four working days of the request. In some circumstances, though, that time limit can be extended up to 10 days, including weekends and holidays. As of yesterday, however, the PDN hadn't received a request to extend the time limit. Suba's request for an internal investigation wasn't acknowledged publicly until last November, when Bordallo released a preliminary disposition, noting Suba's prior order for an investigation. The Blue House lounge was a brothel that operated in Tamuning between 2004 and 2008. The brothel lured women from the Federated States of Micronesia with the promise of high-paying waitress jobs, After they arrived, however, brothel owner Song Ja Cha would confiscate their passports and force them into prostitution, according to the federal court case against her. She was found guilty of sex trafficking in federal court and sentenced to life in prison. She faces similar charges in local court, but has appealed to the island's Supreme Court, arguing she cannot be tried twice for the same crime. Two officers arrested in the Blue House case, Anthony Quenga and David Manila, are facing trial with Cha on prostitution and criminal sexual conduct charges. Officer Mario Laxamana entered a plea agreement earlier this year with prosecutors. He agreed to plead guilty to felonious restraint in exchange for his testimony at trial.
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Cole Edmonson has rocked my world again. He has recently posted pictures of his full-scale Glamdring, the sword carried by Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings. It is a beautiful sword and Cole has out-done himself. I hope he continues recreating LOTR weapons in LEGO form. I'm loving it.
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Neil Patrick Harris is assembling an all-star cast for his musical directorial debut.
According to Broadway World, a number of stars of stage and screen will join the Hollywood Bowl's early August three-night production of "Rent," which has already cast Vanessa Hudgens in the role of Mimi.
Amongst the stars who will join – Wayne Brady ("The Wayne Brady Show," "Whose Line Is It Anyway?") Aaron Tveit ("Howl," "Ugly Betty," Broadway's "Next To Normal"), Skylar Astin (Broadway's "Spring Awakening"), Collins Pennie ("Fame," "Stomp The Yard 2: Homecoming") and three previous "Rent" performers, Tracie Thoms ("Cold Case," Joanne in the 2005 movie version), Telly Leung and Gwen Stewart, the original Broadway vocalist of "Seasons of Love."
"So far, I'm thrilled with the cast," Neil told the site. "With this gang, I'm hoping to provide an eclectic mix of experienced RENT performers, amazing new talent, and recognizable faces in unexpected roles."
The summer production will run for only three performances at the Bowl, on August 6, 7 and 8.
Neil is currently filming "The Smurfs" in NYC.
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This autumn, 9 October – 12 January 2014, the National Gallery presents the UK's first major exhibition devoted to the portrait in Vienna - Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900.
Portraiture is closely identified with the distinctive flourishing of modern art in the Austrian capital during its famed fin-de-siècle: artists worked to the demands of patrons, and in Vienna modern artists were compelled to focus on the image of the individual.
Iconic portraits from this time – by Gustav Klimt , Egon Schiele, Richard Gerstl, Oskar Kokoschka and Arnold Schönberg are displayed alongside works by important yet less widely known artists such as Broncia Koller and Isidor Kaufmann.
In contrast to their contemporaries working in Paris, Berlin and Munich, and in response to the demands of their local market, Viennese artists such as Klimt remained focused on the image of the individual. Portraits therefore dominate their production, enabling this exhibition to reconstruct the shifting identities of artists, patrons, families, friends, intellectual allies and society celebrities of this time and place.
Paintings from major collections on both sides of the Atlantic, including those that hardly ever leave the walls of the Belvedere in Vienna and MoMA in New York are shown next to rarely seen, yet remarkable images from smaller public and private collections. Most works are on canvas, though visitors will also see drawings and the haunting death masks of Gustav Klimt (1918); Ludwig van Beethoven (1827), Egon Schiele (1918) and Gustav Mahler (1911), all on loan from the Wien Museum Karlsplatz. A family photograph album belonging to Edmund de Waal, acclaimed author of 'The Hare with Amber Eyes' (2010) will also be exhibited. De Waal's family were once a very wealthy European Jewish banking dynasty centered in Vienna; this photograph memoir has been described as an 'enchanting history lesson'.
Highlight paintings include:
'The Family (Self Portrait)' by Schiele (1918, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna)
'Nude Self Portrait by Gerstl' (1908, Leopold Museum, Vienna)
'Portrait of a Lady in Black' by Gustav Klimt (about 1894, Private collection)
Also on show is
Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Hermine Gallia (1904, The National Gallery, London)
the haunting image of a Jewish patron of art and design whose family would be driven from Vienna by anti-Semitism in the 1930s. It is the only painting by this seminal Viennese artist in the National Gallery's collection.
The exhibition also features a room devoted to the portrait as a declaration of love and commemoration of the dead while a final display looks at unfinished or abandoned works that failed to meet the expectations of artists or patrons.
'Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900' explores an extraordinary period of the multi-national, multi-ethnic, multi-faith city of Vienna as imperial capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1867–1918). The exhibition looks back at middle-class Vienna in the early 19th century, the so-called Biedermeier period, as represented by artists like Frederich von Amerling and Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, whose portraits were 'rediscovered' by the city's modern artists in 1900. It then moves to the 1867 – 1918 period to consider images of children and families, of artists, and of men and women in their professional and marital roles.
The period began with liberal and democratic reform, urban and economic renewal, and religious and ethnic tolerance, but ended with the rise of conservative, nationalist and anti-Semitic mass movements. Such dramatic changes had a profound impact on the composition and confidence of Vienna's middle classes, many of them immigrants with Jewish roots or connections. Portraits were the means by which this sector of society - the 'New Viennese' - declared its status and sense of belonging; portraits also increasingly served to express their anxiety and alienation.
'Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900' is curated by Dr. Gemma Blackshaw, Associate Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture at Plymouth University and guest curator at the National Gallery. The project was conceived by Christopher Riopelle, Curator of Post-1800 Paintings at the National Gallery.
'Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900' is organised by the National Gallery, London.
From a fascinating review:
Egon Schiele's Erich Lederer, 1912, the pose as elegantly Dyckian as any Stuart fop
This is an exhibition that from beginning to end loses its way. The year 1900 is its proposed focus, yet it roams far back to the age of Schubert and bogs down in an examination of the middle classes of his day, with the clutter of Biedermeier furniture, the clank and clunk of the German fortepiano and the whiff of tobacco in a Meerschaum pipe, and then offers, in only 73 exhibits, a threadbare patchwork history of Viennese portraiture from 1827 to 1918. Even with so little to show, the exhibition is diminished rather than enhanced by diversions into the Viennese fascination with death — so many of its citizens had taken to the Danube, the razor, the revolver and the rope that the city was known as "the suicide zone of Europe" (and what has that to do with portraiture?) — into women artists of the day (have we not had enough of gender politics in art?), and into "Imaging the Jew" — this last illustrated by one of the most beautiful portraits in the exhibition,
Isidor Kaufmann's Young Rabbi of 1910.
The exhibition is far from being "a portrait of Vienna itself", as Nicholas Penny puts it in his Director's Foreword; it could hardly be that without some focus on the Secession and the Wiener Werkstätte (craft workshops) — though some trifle by Kolomon Moser appears on the shelf behind Maria in Auchentaller's portrait of 1912.
The exhibition comes to life with Klimt, aged 38 in 1900. We see an earlier Klimt, his Lady in Black of c.1894,(above) a thing of startling light, clarity, tone and silhouette, every detail of textile, stitching and jewellery, of ear, hair, eye, lips, double chin and hand caught to perfection in and against the light, every aspect of its brilliance quite astonishing. Ten years on we encounter Hermine Gallia of 1904, (above) a portly Jewess dissolving in a Whistlerian drift of faintly coloured tone, anchored in pattern but all other details suggested, not defined. In it we can nevertheless see roots of the highly coloured, ornately detailed tricks and mannerisms that were, within a decade, to make Klimt's work so utterly seductive —
his posthumous (and unfinished, for he too died) portrait of the dancer Ria Munk of 1917-18, makes the point.
From another excellent review:
Schiele Egon Schiele's Portrait of Albert Paris von Gütersloh, 1918 Photograph: Schiele/Minneapolis Institute of Arts
The stars of the show are undoubtedly Schiele and Klimt. Schiele's portraits, especially those of himself, are a bit frightening and grotesque, and deliberately, provocatively so. I am immune to Schiele. Klimt, who began as an extremely proficient and conventional portraitist, did at least develop in interesting ways, and wasn't just bludgeoning us with his ego. There was a sense of inquiry in his work, even at its most decorative, an interest in form and surface that at its best becomes almost oceanic.
Gustav Klimt's portrait of Amalie Zuckerkandl, 1917-18. Photograph: National Gallery
Perhaps the real ending to the show comes not among the death masks or the portrait of Emperor Franz Joseph, lain out for the undertaker, but in Klimt's 1917-18 portrait of Amalie Zuckerkandl, which hangs alone on a dark wall. Klimt died before finishing the painting. It seems complete without his usual decorative excess. I am held by the painting's symmetry, the way that Zuckerkandl looks directly at us. Apart from her head and bust, the rest is vagueness. Later, she was murdered in a Nazi concentration camp. Here, she still has something of a life to live, which makes this painting's incompleteness painful and expressive in ways the artist could never have intended or envisaged.
And from still another review (images added):
For example, if like me you'd always thought of Schiele's or Kokoschka's twisted and tormented portraits as visual manifestations of Freud's writings about neurosis and hysteria, just take a look at the work of one of their predecessors, the surpassingly strange Anton Romako, who died in 1889. His pendant portraits of the newspaper man
Christoph Reisser and
his wife Isabella
are so unsettling that on first seeing them I found I'd inadvertently taken a step backwards. Husband and wife are seen from head on, as though caught in the beam of a headlamp. Dressed to the nines, Isabella smiles as she knows she must. But what a smile:self-conscious and tearful, she bares her white teeth as if she might bite us. Christoph, by contrast is a big powerful man who crumples that day's newspaper in one hand. Assured, calm and self -confident, he could be a psychiatrist, she his patient.
Compare this to Kokoschka's double portrait of the young art historian Hans Tietze and his wife Erica Tietze-Conrat of 1909, where the husband lowers his eyes and bites his lower lip hard enough to draw a drop of blood. If he is eaten up with anxiety his wife stares vacantly into space with the unfocused eyes of a person in shock.
And that portrait is mild stuff compared to Kokoschka's dying Count Verona, where on the wall behind the tubercular sitter is a palm print made with the blood he has just coughed up and wiped from his mouth and chin.
'Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900' is published by National Gallery Company to accompany the exhibition. The foreword to the accompanying book, edited by Dr. Blackshaw, is written by Edmund de Waal.


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Here I come with another FW look I wore! For Fashion Weeks I tend to dare a bit more with my looks and try to wear something I wouldn't usually wear, but still true to my style and that I feel comfortable in.
This time I wore a head to toe white look. What? I never thought I would wear so much white in an outfit until my wedding day (if that happens someday, who knows). The fact is that I knew the accessories and shoes I wanted to wear but I wasn't sure about the clothes, and this look randomly came to my head while I was on a fashion show that had nothing to do with that full white look.
I ended up trying it and it looked so cool. The idea was to create a suit effect because both the blazer and bottom were white, but a bit more modern because the pants were a kind of denim material. I'm so glad both pieces had the same shade of white because not always happens and drives me crazy.
So, I wore a white blazer I had (previously shared on this blog) with these flare denim pants also in white. Now it's time for the cool part which is accessories. I recently got the coolest belt I own, from MissyEmpire, which is this diamond and silver belt I've seen so much lately on Instagram and I wanted to style myself. And then, for shoes, I wore these snake printed ankle boots I got not much ago from EgoShoes and that I'm obsessed with too.
This outfit stands out because of how white it is, but once you look at it you discover the beautiful and amazing accessories. I'm sure I'll be styling them many other ways soon because these two items are so trendy right now and I have several ideas on my mind by now on how to style them.
Do you like this white look? What do you think about the accessories? Definitely tell me so in the comments down below and I'll be glad to read!
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Blazer – MissyEmpire
Pants – Bershka
Belt – MissyEmpire
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Sunglasses – Dolce&Gabbana
Jewelry – Ania Haie
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Some of the kids made this beautiful "flower pie" for me the other day on the playground. They are always making pies and cakes with the sand. Gumballs from the trees on our playground are always in abundance, so of course they added a few. I love that they all call them "meatballs"! Eventually, a few discovered my flower garden from last year and added some beautiful decorations to help make this "flower pie with meatballs" just perfect!
Our camera battery was charging, so we brought it inside for a while to enjoy until we could get a picture. I almost hated to throw it away, but I know they will make many more this year!
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OTTAWA - Canada is opening four new trade offices in China.
That brings to 15 the number of Canadian trade offices in the country.
Trade Minister Ed Fast announced the new offices while in China on a trade mission.
The announcement comes on the heels of a new plan to embed 25 trade commissioners inside Canadian business associations.
The federal government hopes that doing so will help co-ordinate its efforts and programs with the companies that can best make use of them.
The four new offices, which are expected to open this fall, will be located in different parts of China, although specific cities were not identified in a news release.


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The Sipox hotel is conveniently located in the scenic valley near Štrba village with a view of the High Tatras peaks. Thanks to its outstanding climate and clear air High Tatras attract a lot of visitors and tourists. There are excellent conditions for hiking and rock climbing. Many ski routes and ski centres, excellent conditions for winter sports.
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An autopsy did not reveal the cause of singer Amy Winehouse's death, and police say it could take up to four weeks for results of toxicology tests to say what killed the troubled 27-year-old singer.
When Winehouse was found dead in her London home on Saturday, even her most ardent fans likely assumed it was drug-related. She had reportedly been on and off heroin and cocaine for years and was in such frail health from her addictions that she suffered from emphysema. But while initial reports said she'd bought a menu of drugs on Friday night, a subsequent report in London's Telegraph cited Scotland Yard sources who said no drugs were found in her home.
"There was no wild party. It was just Amy and her security guard," her spokesman added. "She went to bed and when he checked her in the morning she looked like she was asleep. It was only when he checked later that he realized something was wrong and called the emergency services."
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If Winehouse, the beehive-haired chanteuse who combined jazz, pop and R&B to create such megahits as "Rehab" and "Back to Black," was not on a bender Friday night, it might have been a rare recent moment of sobriety. Winehouse's distraught mother recounted meeting her daughter on Thursday, saying Winehouse "seemed out of it." The five-time Grammy winner was recently booed off a Belgrade stage when she tried to perform while obviously intoxicated, the latest comeback to be scuttled by her inability to control her appetite for drugs.
Neal Sugarman, Winehouse's sax player, told the BBC that Winehouse's spiral had left her a shell of the pop star who ruled the charts in her early twenties.
"Unfortunately the last time I saw her, which was a little while ago in London, it was not a pretty sight," Sugarman said. "It was real depressing. We cut something that she wasn't able to sing on, which was a real drag."
Early Monday, Winehouse's father Mitch, who left New York and flew home from a singing engagement of his own on word of his daughter's death, greeted flower-bearing fans outside her home.
"This means so much to my family," the onetime taxi driver said.
The news of her death also stunned Winehouse's ex-husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, who reportedly turned the singer on to drugs during a turbulent relationship she often referenced in song. Civil, who is now serving a prison sentence for burglary, collapsed in his cell, according to the Sun.
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A rep for Winehouse told Us magazine she will be mourned at a private funeral on Tuesday.
Winehouse joins a legendary "club" of music stars who died at age 27, typically felled by drug or alcohol abuse. Among them: Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Rolling Stone Brian Jones and, nearly 75 years ago, Delta bluesman Robert Johnson.
Last year, in an interview with Harper's Bazaar magazine, Winehouse summoned the bravado of reckless youth when asked if she had any unfulfilled ambitions.
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At the historic investiture of Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Bernette Joshua Johnson on February 28, 2013, James Williams welcomed over a thousand people who spilled out across Royal Street in the French Quarter. "Welcome to history" said Mr. Williams, sending up cheers and applause from the crowd. Chief Justice Johnson is the first African-American woman to become Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court.
Mr. Williams, the Master of Ceremonies, explained to the crowds why the day was rich in meaning. "If Judge Israel Augustine and Justice Revius Ortique were the Moses generation, then Chief Justice Johnson is the Joshua generation", referring not only to her family name Joshua, but to the biblical Joshua. Judge Augustine was the first African-American district court judge in Louisiana and Justice Ortique was the first African-American man to sit on the Louisiana Supreme Court.
Standing next to the statue of Justice Edward Douglas White, U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Carl Stewart administered the oath of office (video here) to Chief Justice Johnson while she was surrounded by her family. Judge Stewart is the first African-American Chief Justice of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Justice Edward Douglas White was the first Louisiana Supreme Court Justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Steve Martin could have done with O2's new gadget in flick Cheaper by the Dozen, because the network provider's claimed the touchscreen device ensures that "family life runs more smoothly".
O2's Joggler: an electronic family diary
Essentially an electronic replacement for sticky notes on the fridge, the 7in Joggler - who came up with that name? - is a family calendar that sends text message reminders out to clan members about important events, such as Little Jimmy's parents evening.
It's worth noting that Joggler doesn't take SIM cards. Instead, O2 will let buyers send 50 text messages per month for free to any UK mobile. Texts can also be sent to Joggler.
Connecting onto your home broadband connector either wired or wirelessly, Joggler also provides weather updates, traffic information, news headlines and sports updates – with the majority of content supplied by broadcaster Sky.
But no family would be complete without entertainment. So it's a good job that Joggler's 1GB storage capacity can be used for storing photos, music and videos.
Play music, watch videos and read the news
Pictures can be transferred onto the device through its USB port, while music and video can also be streamed to the device and played out through its built-in speakers.
Sudoku's the only game currently available on Joggler, but O2's promised that more will be coming soon.
Joggler's other features include an alarm clock, calculator, radio and – of course – a calendar.
O2 said Joggler will be available from early next month, priced at £150 ($212/€169). ®


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This Day in Sports History — July 9
Here are just some of the notable sports moments that happened on July 9 :
1877 — Play began at the first Wimbledon championships at the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club near London. (More info.)
1922 — American Johnny Weissmuller swam the 100 meter freestyle in 58.6 seconds to break the world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'. (More info.)
1932 — The Boston Braves, who will become the Washington Redskins in 1937, were granted an NFL franchise. (More info.)
1933 — The Philadelphia Eagles were granted an NFL franchise and the remains of the Frankford Yellow Jackets. (More info.)
1940 — Max West of the Boston Bees hit a three-run homer in the first inning to lead the National League to a 4-0 win over the American League in the MLB All-Star Game at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis. (More info.)
1946 — Boston Red Sox slugger Ted Williams homered on an Eephus pitch from Pittsburgh Pirates' pitcher Rip Sewell, as the American League routed the National League, 12-0, in the MLB All-Star Game at Fenway Park in Boston. (More info.)
1953 — Philadelphia Phillies' pitcher Robin Roberts gave up 11 hits and five earned runs to the Brooklyn Dodgers, as his streak of 28 consecutive complete games came to an end. (More info.)
1968 — San Francisco Giants' star Willie Mays was the Most Valuable Player, as the National League beat the American League, 1-0, at the Astrodome in Houston in the first-ever MLB All-Star Game played indoors. (More info.)
1977 — In what is now known as 'The Duel in the Sun,' Tom Watson beat Jack Nicklaus by one stroke to win the British Open at Turnberry in Scotland. (More info.)
1991 — After a 21-year ban because of their oppressive apartheid policy, South Africa was readmitted to the Olympics. (More info.)
1994 — With all five goals coming inside of 30 minutes of the second half, Brazil defeated the Netherlands, 3-2, in the quarterfinals of soccer's World Cup at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. (More info.)
2000 — Pete Sampras beat Patrick Rafter of Australia to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon and pass Roy Emerson as the all-time leader in Grand Slam victories with 13. (More info.)


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Team College of Arts and Sciences' winning entry in the seventh annual Gingerbread House Decorating Contest commemorated the 30th anniversary of the holiday film "A Christmas Story."
Photographer: Ben Wirtz Siegel
Gail Houlette from OHIO Education Abroad competes in the Gingerbread House Decorating Contest hosted by Culinary Services. Education Abroad's entry, commemorating the 50th anniversary of African Studies at Ohio University, won the People's Choice Award.
Photographer: Ben Wirtz Siegel
Team Scripps members Cindy Smith, Beth Novak and Heather Krugman decorate their entry, a replica of the newly opened Schoonover Center, in the Gingerbread House Decorating Contest.
Photographer: Ben Wirtz Siegel
Dec 19, 2013
By Angela Woodward
Creativity and style gave a team from Ohio University's College of Arts and Sciences a leg – or in this case, a leg lamp – up on its competition at this year's Gingerbread House Decorating Contest.
The six-member team's tribute to the holiday classic "A Christmas Story" took top honors at Wednesday's seventh annual competition, hosted by Ohio University Culinary Services and held at the West 82 Food Court in Baker University Center.
Thirteen teams from throughout the University competed in this year's contest – the highest turnout to date for the event, according to Dan Pittman, assistant director of auxiliary sales.
"The Gingerbread House Decorating Contest is a wonderful event for the holiday season," Pittman said. "The occasion provides a fantastic creative outlet that often brings numerous groups from different colleges and departments together on campus. It really speaks to the fantastic diversity and team-building spirit within the Ohio University community."
For the contest, Ohio University Catering provides the teams with gingerbread, white icing and other sundry items. The teams are permitted to bring additional items, but all items featured in the entries must be edible. Culinary Services' guests and management staff judge the entries on creativity and complexity and check to make sure that all of the items used are edible.
Team College of Arts and Sciences' winning entry commemorated the 30th anniversary of the holiday film "A Christmas Story." The centerpiece of the entry was the lamp shaped like a woman's leg wearing a fishnet stocking that was featured in the film. Surrounding the leg lamp were little snippets from the film, including a Red Ryder BB Gun, a bar of soap, Ralphie wearing a pink bunny outfit, and a snowman with its carrot nose stuck to a pretzel pole.
Team member Charlene Deininger, a transfer advisor in the college, came up with the idea for the winning design – despite, she said, hating "A Christmas Story" and being from Cleveland, where the movie was filmed.
"But everyone knows that movie and loves it, and this year marks the film's 30th anniversary," she said.
This was the second year Team Arts and Sciences entered the contest.
"We did it last year, and it was so much fun," said team member Keely Hultz, an advisor in the college. "Most of us work on different floors in our office, so we don't get to interact that much."
"This is a nice group activity, and it gets you into the spirit of the season," said team member Linda Schoeppner, an administrative associate.
The team was thrilled with its victory and planned to put its winning entry on display in the reception area of the dean's office on the second floor of Wilson Hall.
Second place in the contest went to a team from Residential Housing for its "Phase One" entry, honoring the first phase of OHIO's Housing Development Project. The entry featured gingerbread construction workers toiling away on the project, a crane that was lifting Kit Kats, and gummy bear pedestrians strolling the sidewalks outside of the work area. In the background was an edible version of the 79-foot-tall State Champion Virginia Pine Tree that was relocated from the work area prior to construction on the housing project commencing earlier this year.
Residential Housing's entry wasn't the only one to showcase the relocated tree.
Third-place honors went to the University College Learning Communities Elves who dedicated their entire entry to the tree. The entry showed the tree – its root ball made of Rice Krispies treats and the green of the tree made of dyed coconut – being moved on a flatbed truck.
The Learning Communities team has been competing in the gingerbread house decorating contest since its inception and took second place in last year's bout.
"It's just fun," team member Kris Kumfer said of the competition.
This year's People's Choice Award went to Team OHIO Education Abroad for its entry commemorating the 50th anniversary of the African Studies Program at Ohio University. The entry consisted of a Gurunsi village in Burkina Faso, a country in West Africa, and included an acai tree made of Rice Krispies treats and uncooked spaghetti.
The team has come a long way since its first gingerbread house decorating contest seven years ago when, according to team member Catherine Marshall, their house collapsed.
"It's a fun time," Marshall, director of Education Abroad, said of the contest. "You are surrounded by sugar, people you like and holiday music. What's not to love?"
Other notable entries included:
"Every year we experience new teams being formed and the contest entries becoming more elaborate," said Eve Wharton, assistant director of retail operations. "It's obvious that each team puts a lot of time, effort and pride into their creation, and it's exciting to see their early concepts and ideas become a reality."
The top three teams received gift certificates for two large, one-topping brick-oven pizzas from the West 82 Food Court.
Check out Culinary Services' Facebook page for more photos of this year's event.
First Place: College of Arts and Sciences
Keely Hultz, Linda Schoeppner, Charlene Deininger, Randy Price, Lori Bauer, Jessica DeMory
Second Place: Residential Housing
Tracy Crabtree, Jen Maskiell, Kirsten Laufenberg, Erin Lambka, Dave Lawrence
Third Place: University College Learning Communities
Wendy Merb-Brown, Wendy Rogers, Sandy Smith, Kris Kumfer, Lisa Kamody
People's Choice: OHIO Education Abroad
Catherine Marshall, Lori Lammert, Lori Collins, Keely Davin, Kirsten Dabelko, Gail Houlette, Janice Bailey Magill


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#10 Terrier ~~ Tamora Pierce
4 of 5 Stars
Beka Cooper is a rookie with the law-enforcing Provost's Guard, and she's been assigned to the Lower City. It's a tough beat that's about to get tougher, as Beka's limited ability to communicate with the dead clues her in to an underworld conspiracy. Someone close to Beka is using dark magic to profit from the Lower City's criminal enterprises–and the result is a crime wave the likes of which the Provost's Guard has never seen before.
#11-14 The Song of the Lioness Quartet ~~ Tamora Pierce
4 1/2 out of 5 Stars
"From now on I'm Alan of Trebond, the younger twin. I'll be a knight."
And so young Alanna of Trebond begins the journey to knighthood. Alanna has always craved the adventure and daring allowed only for boys; her twin brother, Thom, yearns to learn the art of magic. So one day they decide to switch places: Disguised as a girl, Thom heads for the convent; Alanna, pretending to be a boy, is on her way to the castle of King Roald to begin her training as a page. But the road to knighthood is not an easy one. As Alanna masters the skills necessary for battle, she must also learn to control her heart and to discern her enemies from her allies. Filled with swords and sorcery, adventure and intrigue, good and evil, Alanna's first adventure begins. one that will lead to the fulfillment of her dreams and make her a legend in the land.
"I don't want to fall in love. I just want to be a warrior maiden."
Still disguised as a boy, Alanna becomes a squire to none other than the prince of the realm. Prince Jonathan is not only Alanna's liege lord, he is also her best friend — and one of the few who knows the secret of her true identity. But when a mysterious sorcerer threatens the prince's life, it will take all of Alanna's skill, strength, and magical power to protect him — even at the risk of revealing who she really is…
Filled with swords and sorcery, adventure and intrigue, good and evil, Alanna's second adventure continues the saga of a girl who dares to follow her dreams — and the magical destiny that awaits her.
The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
A knight at last, Alanna of Trebond heads out to seek adventure in the desert of Tortall. Captured by desert tribesmen, she is forced to prove herself in a magical duel to the death. But her real challenge doesn't come until after she wins. As the first female shaman, Alanna must fight to change the ancient traditions of the stubborn desert tribes — for their own sake and for the sake of all Tortall.
Having achieved her dream of becoming the first female knight errant, Alanna of Trebond is not sure what to do next. Perhaps being a knight errant is not all that Alanna needs….But Alanna must push her uncertainty aside when a new challenge arises. She must recover the Dominion Jewel, a legendary gem with enormous power for good — but only in the right hands. And she must work quickly. Tortall is in great danger, and Alanna's archenemy, Duke Roger, is back — and more powerful than ever. In this final book of the Song of the Lioness quartet, Alanna discovers that she indeed has a future worthy of her mythic past — both as a warrior and as a woman.
Ana Says: Alanna: The First Adventure was published in 1983 when I was just a toddler. It wasn't until twenty years later that, through the wonders of the Science Fiction Book Club, I found this omnibus collection. I tore through all four books in a day or so and then immediately ordered every other Tamora Pierce omnibus collection they offered. Tammy writes strong female characters who aren't afraid to get dirty and play with the boys. She doesn't shy away from sex and female sexuality, but she also doesn't punch you in the face with it. Alanna is strong and independent, but she also asks for help from others (usually when she digs herself in too deep). Tammy is one of my favorite authors and I re-read her books every couple of years. Nearly thirty years after the first book was published, they're still relevant and still entertaining.


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Everybody is freaking out!
Is there a new partnership in the works?
Mel is not going to sell the company short, period.
Too many major institutions buying and holding shares.
But................what is happening other than speculation by everyone including those that were once consider holy like the WSJ. What is happening to sanity?


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Panotools::Script is a framework for scripting various panorama operations using the command-line tools shipped with hugin, it has some Documentation on CPAN.
Panotools::Script is a Perl module, so for Windows you need to download and install ActiveState Perl first, I got the MSI installer for ActivePerl-188.8.131.522.
For some reason, the installer doesn't set the PATH correctly for manually built modules, so go to Explorer -> My Computer -> right-click -> Properties -> Advanced -> Environment Variables -> System variables. Scroll to Path, click edit, and add this path to the front of the existing list of paths:
Math::Matrix, Image::Size and Module::Build
You need three extra modules that are not installed by default. So in the Activestate part of the Start menu, run the Perl Package Manager (PPM). This can be used to install pre-built add-on modules, in this case you want to install Math-Matrix, Image-Size and Module-Build. Reboot after installing Module-Build, remember this is windows.
ImageMagick is a general purpose command-line image manipulation suite, Panotools::Script uses it for various purposes such as resizing and playing with alpha channels. I downloaded the Win32 dynamic at 16 bits-per-pixel version from the ImageMagick site.
Install hugin from the sourceforge download area if you haven't already. You need to fix the PATH again, add the hugin installation location the same as you did for Perl above:
C:\Program Files\hugin\bin;
Autotrace is a tool for converting bitmap images to vector graphics, only install this if you plan on editing enblend masks in Inkscape.
Download autotrace from here. You need to manually extract and install this one, put the folder containing the various DLLs and EXE files somewhere like C:\Program Files\autotrace and add this to your PATH as you did for Perl and hugin.
Download the latest source-code for Panotools::Script. This is a gzipped tar archive, so you will need something like 7-zip to extract it.
Download nmake
make is required to build and install Perl modules, download nmake from Microsoft and double-click it to extract. Copy NMAKE.EXE and NMAKE.ERR to the directory where you extracted the Panotools::Script sources.
Test and install
Open a command window: Click Start -> Run... -> cmd -> OK.
Change to the directory where you extracted the sources:
cd Desktop\Panotools-Script-0.09
Then run the tests:
perl Makefile.PL nmake test
The tests will produce lots of output and warnings, but at the end it should report 100% success. Finally install everything:
nmake install
Creating .exe tools
This step isn't necessary if you have perl installed, but may be useful to make the tools usable on systems without perl. The right tool for this is PAR::Packer, I couldn't get it to work with this version of perl (please update this HOWTO if you know), so I installed App-Packer using Perl Package Manager (PPM).
If you are lucky then you can just create the .exe files with the make_exe.pl script:
perl make_exe.pl
I wasn't so lucky and had an error from a standard perl module bytes_heavy.pl, which I fixed by pasting this code into C:\Perl\lib\bytes_heavy.pl
<source lang="pl"> sub import {
return unless $Have_Bytes; shift; unshift @_, 'bytes'; goto &bytes::import;
} </source>
Finally, you should be able to run the resulting .exe files on other Windows systems, though you will also need the copy the perl58.dll file to the same destination.


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I was fortunate enough to spend an inspiring weekend in London last week for the second annual Fat Quarterly Community Retreat. You know, after last year, I didn't think it could get any better. I was wrong.
I can't go much further without first talking about the amazing people I got to hang out with. In the picture above you'll see some shots of Katy, Brioni, Laura Jane, Lu, Justine, Mandy, and Jenna. These ladies -- along with Lynne and Tacha and many others, of course -- made the weekend an even more incredible experience than I could have hoped for.
I had the pleasure of teaching two classes this year. The first was a hand embroidery workshop in which I introduced some basic stitches that I like to use to a room full of eager crafters, both novice and experienced. The real fun, of course, came in the form of the many goodies I was able to round up and give away.
Many thanks to Alyssa Thomas of Penguin & Fish, Alison Glass, and Spoonflower for their generous donations to my class. Alyssa provided several copies of her adorable iron-on transfer patterns (see the hedgehog, unicorn and yak above). Alison sent along a sneak peek of her newest Clover Sunshine embroidery patterns (see the birds and rabbit above). And since Alison's paper and iron-on patterns weren't available yet, I teamed up with my friends at Spoonflower to print the embroidery patterns directly onto some Kona cotton. Perfect!
You can find these patterns here:
Penguin & Fish hand embroidery patterns
Alison Glass Design Shop
My second class was on blogging; i.e. how to create a successful blog and build your blog following. I must admit, I was extremely nervous about teaching this class -- I mean, have you seen the cobwebs and thick layer of dust that's been sitting on my blog for the past year? In the end, I pulled together a "Top 10" list of blog best practices that I think led to some very rich and meaningful conversations with the attendees of both sessions of my class. I'll post that Top 10 list soon but, in the meantime, Leila wrote a really nice blog post on the class that you can read here. I think that teaching that class has inspired me to come back and revisit this space. I hope I can stay a while.
And while teaching the classes were most definitely highlights of the weekend, there were so many more: getting to meet and hang out with long-time online buddy Krista of Poppyprint; a lovely mid-day 4-mile run in Hyde Park; presiding over the fun swaps and pub quiz; hang-out time on the Baden-Powell House's fab terrace; late night clubbing with Justine and Laura Jane; pizza night; and our now-legendary final night dinner where we drink, laugh, drink, reminisce, and drink some more.
From having never left the USA until last year's retreat to now having visited London 3 times in the past 12 months, it's beginning to feel like a second home. And I say "home" because I also feel like I have family there now. Can't wait to go back.


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Karim Bencharifa begins second stint as chief coach of Mohun Bagan
Moroccan Karim Bencherifa, beginning his second stint as coach of Mohun Bagan, on Monday said that his main aim would be to regain the I-League title.
Moroccan Karim Bencherifa, beginning his second stint as coach of Mohun Bagan, on Monday said that his main aim would be to regain the I-League title.
The 44-year-old was recalled from Goa after Santosh Kashyap was asked to quit after the team's failure in the Federation Cup and the back-to-back defeats in the I-League.
Karim had served Mohun Bagan for 19 months before joining Salgaocar Sports Club in 2010 and won the I-League and Federation Cup in 2011.
Karim had left Bagan 33 months ago after differences cropped up between him and club officials.
Karim, who was with Salgaoncar before this assignment, said, "I am very happy to be back with Mohun Bagan. It's a new challenge and I am very comfortable in taking up challenges."
Karim, in his first stint, had shepherded Bagan to become runners up in the I-League and champions in the Federation Cup. It also topped the Calcutta Premier League.
But Mohun Bagan failed to win any tournament after Karim left the club.
Karim said under his coaching Salgaocar not only saved relegation, but emerged as champions in the I league. "I know the responsibility on my shoulder. Hopefully this will be a great season for Mohun Bagan again. We are now four points behind the league leader. It's not a big gap. Moreover, I league title is decided mostly on the performance in the second stage of the league," Karim said.
He said that there were many things that needed improvements, including the fitness level of the players, and that conditions here were better than at Salgaocar.
"I had to motivate the Salgaocar players a lot. The squad here has a lot of quality."
Asked about the reason for leaving Salgaocar, Karim said after they lost their 6th I-league match against Sikkim United on October 7, he decided to quit as his partnership with the club was not doing well.
Asked about the availability of Australian striker Tolgey Ozbey, Karim said he was injured and is in the process of rehabilitation.


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Step One: Get to Laguna Beach through Laguna Canyon Road or PCH (highway 1). Step two: get on PCH and go south (or north if you came through Dana Point). When you see the statue of the Greeter at the old Pottery Shack, that's Brooks Street. Step Three: It's hard to find a parking spot on Brooks on the "wet" side of PCH, so you might be better off turning inland and parking on the "dry" side. Step Four: There are stairs at Brooks, Oak, or Thalia. If you go down the stairs at Oak or Thalia, just walk south until you can't go any further.
DistanceIn the city
WalkShort walk (5-15 mn)
Easy to find?Easy to find
Public access?Public access
Special accessPaddle > 20mn or Boat
Alternative name Brooks
Wave qualitySloppy
ExperienceExperienced surfers
DirectionRight and left
BottomReef (coral, sharp rocks etc..)
PowerPowerful, Ledgey
Normal lengthNormal (50 to 150m)
Good day lengthLong (150 to 300 m)
Good swell directionWest, SouthWest, South
Good wind directionEast, NorthEast
Swell sizeStarts working at 1.0m-1.5m / 3ft-5ft and holds up to 5m / 16 ft and over
Best tide positionAll tides
Best tide movementRising tide
Week crowdFew surfers
Week-end crowdFew surfers
- Rocks
Don't go deep! stay on the wing and be ready for a steep drop. After that it's easy. If you come in summer there will a lot of traffic. Also be aware of the blackball area between Brooks and Thalia during the summer.
This can be the biggest break in Laguna, but it needs a south swell to work. If you wait for a big swell (6-8ft.) you can meet people like Kelly Slater, Rob Machodo, Donavan Frankinter, and Bill Bryan. There are two main reefs, First and Second. First breaks most often. It's about 50 m from shore. First reef is REALY skecthy (ledgy, step, sometimes close out). The hundreds of boils can meke it hard to paddle at lower tides. Beware of rocks on the inside.
Second Reef is a very different world. Glassy, barrels, and plenty of carving space. It is big when this place breaks (6-10ft.). Second is about 95 m from shore. A place that rarely breaks is...Third Reef when the sets come trough you'd better be ready. When your on the inside and you see it peaking at fourth reef you think "Why the heak am I out here!".
When it is not big you'll see longboards and not so good surfers. It breaks at first on small days by the way. If you have any questions about the spot look for a guy named Ted Taylor in the line up. Have a good sesion.
All and all, Brooks is a sketchy wave that is fun. Have a good time!
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By ELITE , 22-06-2013
Not very good - This spot is dangerous but not much shape and just a huge bowl. But it's very entertaining when it's big but you'll find me at Rockpile if it's big. This spot is total BS. The only good thing about this spot is 3rd reef.
By secertbreak10streetswimaroundthefarrocktotherightgettothenextcove! , 05-08-2010
lol haha the locals..... - mapquest: brook st. laguna beach 92651
for directions of course..
youtube: brook st. contest 07/25/09
its not the best video, but the locals here try to scare everyone away.. they won't even let 1 good pic or vid shed light on the internet.. but this video will give you idea of what can go down if the conditions are right.. this spot only really breaks big once a year at most if your lucky... big that is.. double/triple overhead... btw most of the pics on this site for this location are fake; only 2 of them are real..
BUOY INFO: NDBC Station 46223
SWEll INFO: SOUTH 180-190 degrees
the higher the seconds the better!
(3ft 15secs on buoy!) = over head+
(5-7ft 20secs on the buoy) this means the wedge is breaking most likely; beware of the first reef it turns into a nasty ledge; very steep drop when double/triple over head! best off riding second into oak street or ride thrid and get off near or after 2nd reef.. BEWARE ON BIG DAYS THIS WAVE CAN CLOSEOUT AND DO THE TOILET BOWL ON THE INSIDE!
TIDE: ride while going high (mid high +2.0/+3.0 best) bogs out at more than +5.0 don't ride if its super low tide 0.0 or lower "dry reef"!
BEST WIND: east/south
WORST WIND: west/north
all the locals know one another of course lol; don't talk to anyone; wait your turn; say you sorry if needed. And i bet you money no one will say shit.. after all its laguna beach.. if anyone gets stupid; call the cops! assault is assault weather its with ones fist or a board. not that anyone gonna doing thing, cuz it laguna beach. but you might get vibed if you rip and no one knows you..
By Anonymous , 28-03-2008
Rob Machado - Must have a house in the area because I saw him shopping at the ralphs in Laguna. I'm sure he's surfed here.
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Growing up in Dorchester in the 1950s and 1960s, Debra Britt of Mansfield often played with her blonde, alabaster-skinned Barbie dolls. This weekend, the women host the state's first Black Doll Collectors Convention at the Mansfield Holiday Inn.
Growing up in Dorchester in the 1950s and 1960s, Debra Britt of Mansfield often played with her blonde, alabaster-skinned Barbie dolls.
Until her grandmother snatched them away.
"She would dye them for me," Britt, an African-American, recalled. "She would say, 'you're never going to have blonde hair and your eyes are never going to be blue. This is who you are and this is what you're going to look like.'"
Three decades later, Britt still carries the torch lit by her late grandmother.
Britt and two of her sisters, Felicia Walker and Tammy Mattison, have amassed a vast collection of black dolls from across the globe and dating back to the Civil War era.
They tote them to area libraries and schools to make sure this generation of children celebrates its ethnic and racial diversity.
"You have to accept yourself for who you are," she says.
This weekend, the women host the state's first Black Doll Collectors Convention at the Mansfield Holiday Inn.
The event has attracted worldwide interest.
"We have people coming from South Africa. We have people coming from France. We have two buses from Chicago and two buses from Philadelphia," she said. "We have the doll artist of the year from the British Virgin Islands."
Mansfield businesses participating with displays or conducting activities at their shops include Comfy's (display), glee gifts (display and shopping tour), Artworks Pottery (display and pottery class) and the Happy Hollow Frame & Gallery (display and informal preserving paper workshop.)
Sponsors also include Pearls of Wisdom, sorority from Brockton, Sisters in Stitches, an African American quilting group in Holbrook, Black Gold DollClub, DALLSS Inc. and thePhiladelphia Doll Museum.
Girl Scouts and youth groups will have an opportunity to participate in the convention May 31 from 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. for hands-on activities including a doll-making workshop, scavenger hunt and a power point presentation on how to identify different types of dolls.
The Sisters in Stitches quilting group will also help them create a square for a memory quilt. Youth leaders are asked to contact Britt by email at email@example.com reservations. She can accept 50 children in each of three, two-hour groups. The cost is $3 per child.
Bringing the convention to their doorstep has been a godsend to the sisters who suffer from physical ailments that have made it increasingly difficult to pack up their dolls and travel.
Britt also hopes the convention will also lead to the fulfillment of a longtime dream of opening a black doll museum.
It would be the country's second of its kind. The Philadelphia Doll Museum opened in 1988 and has 300 black dolls.
The convention and the museum are a world away from Britt's roots in Dorchester where she was raised poor and the oldest of six siblings.
"My childhood was not easy. My mother raised her seven brothers and sisters. I grew up in a house with aunts and uncles," the 53-year-old Mansfield said.
The family didn't have a lot of money but Britt's father stressed in his children the value of taking care of what they had.
If they didn't put away their toys when they were done with them, he would store them away.
Britt started collecting dolls in her late teens.
When her father died in 1997, Britt and her brothers and sisters found a cache of toys, including the many dolls he had painstakingly wrapped and stored away for them.
Her hobby shifted into high gear in 1998 when her then 5-year-old nephew told her Santa Claus wasn't coming to his house on Christmas Eve because Santa wasn't black.She now owns more than 200 black Santa dolls.
The sisters formed the Doll E Daze Project in 2004 and have more than 5,000 brides, angels, Native American and traditional African dolls, home made and mass produced dolls, contemporary and vintage dolls, figurines representing modern sports stars and rock stars and dolls fashioned from cloth and porcelain.
The mission is to preserve black doll history and culture through lectures and workshops and to stress the importance of children playing with dolls that look like themselves.
The workshops are not solely for girls and women, she says.
Boys have a lot of self-esteem issues that they work out by learning about dolls and how the pieces fit together, building robots out of tin cans and turning figurines into action figures.
Among Britt's favorite dolls is her collections of golliwogs — the century-old "black-faced" rag dolls that are seen as racially offensive-caricatures to modern day sensibilities.
But Britt says they created in childhood stories to endear rather than offend.
"They are part of my history and I embrace them. You have to learn from the past. You can't hide from it," she says.
She has also started a young girls book club called "Books over Boys" that explores stories by Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison.
The museum would culminate all their efforts over the years and give a home to the estimated 5,000 dolls that have been stored in their homes and garages and sheds and moved around from town to town and school to school.
They are scouting possible 4,500 to 5,000 square-foot facilities and looking at old mills in Mansfield and Taunton.
She says the sites are central, near commuter rail and highways and would be a boon to tourism.
She visualizes a museum with cultural and performing arts centers, art gallery, workshop area and an international café. Britt wants to stress diversity and would love exhibits about the Holocaust or about Muslims.
They hope to complete the facility for under $700,000. An architect from map-lab in Boston has donated design services.
"I an really tired of lugging all these dolls around. It's getting to be a challenge. Last year, after breaking down our fourth or fifth library show, I said, 'this is crazy. We really need more space,'" she said.
The Black Doll Collectors Convention will be held noon-6 p.m. Saturday, May 31 and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, June 1 at the Mansfield Holiday Inn, 31 Hampshire St.
General admission to the black doll marketplace and appraisal area is $10.
A $250 conventioneer admission includes reception, doll fashion show, auctions, dinner, luncheon, a souvenir doll and early entrance into the doll market place. The conventioneer fee also includes workshops and seminars.


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The Oman Air – Emergency Response & Planning (ERP) Department conducted the 3rd 'Emergency Response Planning Outstation Workshop' recently. This workshop was attended by 75 Oman Air employees, who came to Muscat from GCC and Middle East, Far East, Africa, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Milan.
The previous two Workshops conducted during 2010 were in London-Bracknell, in the UK, for Oman Air's regional staff in Europe and another one in Mumbai, India for the Oman Air staff in the Indian Stations.
The keynote speech was delivered by Philippe Georgiou - Chief Officer Corporate Affairs, who explained to the participants the importance of an organization to be prepared to handle crisis situations in the most effective and efficient way.
Don Hunter - Chief Officer Airport Operations, highlighted the value of Emergency Response Planning (ERP) based on many of the past incidents of other airlines.
Training on Station Emergency Response Planning was conducted by Himali Setunge – Manager Emergency Response & Planning which was followed by 'Aviation Security Training' by Security Department's Senior Officers - Mubarak Al Jahdhami and Rashid Al Harthy.
Michael White, from Kenyon International Emergency Services conducted a training presentation on Kenyon's Support to Oman Air for managing station response which was followed by a table top exercise and a brain storming session.
Yaqoob Al Aufi - Oman Air Muscat, Airport Services Manager, who was a delegate at this workshop commented, - "I am glad I attended this workshop. All the presentations were very practical and direct, that helped in educating our network Airport Services Managers to know their responsibilities and role on this crucial subject."
This training concludes the first of the five phases of the Station Emergency Response Plan implementation process. The second phase involves preparation of a plan customised for each station as per the ERP guidelines. The third and fourth phases would comprise of a review of the draft plan submitted by the ERP Department and the various Station Management. The implementation of the station-wise ER plan followed by staff training by the ERP Officials will take place in the final phase.


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Saudi psychology professor chained, beaten and to receive lashing and jail time for having "coffee" with a female "student"
Abdullah Al-Sanousi, the academic's lawyer, told local newspapers that his client had drawn the ire of some of the Commission's staffers for speaking at length during a training session about how important it was for them to be polite to the public. Some of the trainees also wanted revenge because they had failed the course while others were not happy with their examination results.
Ruzaiz is said to have received a call from a girl purporting to be one of his students who asked to meet to discuss a problem that she did not want to talk about over the phone. The professor agreed to meet at a family cafe, provided she brought her brother along as a chaperone.
When he arrived, he was surprised to find the girl alone, and was promptly surrounded by religious policemen who handcuffed him and hauled him into custody. He was accused of being in a state of khulwa – seclusion – with an unrelated woman.
His lawyer insisted that because the two met in a public place frequented by hundreds of families, the question of khulwa, or illegal seclusion, never arose. The commission, however, insists that the family sections at coffee shops and restaurants are meant only for families and close relatives.
The professor is said to have taped a later conversation with the girl in which she admitted that she had been sent to the cafe by the religious police. The professor is relying on an appeals court to overturn the verdict. His lawyer has urged local human rights associations to back his plea for reviewing the case.
A local paper, Al-Madina Arabic published a detailed account of his defence. The academic in his account to Al-Madina Arabic daily, persisted with his charge that staffers of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice had framed him. Following are key excerpts from this article.
He claimed that he was the victim of a plot engineered by the staffers in revenge for issues he had raised with them during a 2006 training course…
The professor told the paper that he had seven pieces of circumstantial evidence that would prove his innocence. Besides, he said, he has another piece of evidence that would upset the entire course of the investigations but this he would reveal only when the time comes.
The professor claimed that the Commission had masterminded the incident in which he was seen meeting a lone and unrelated woman in the family section of a hotel.
The paper carried a narrative by the professor of his version of what had transpired.
The academic said while he was lecturing at the 2006 training course for men, a man handed him a sealed envelop containing a message from a woman, which claimed that she had a problem with her husband and wanted the academic's help in solving it.
The message contained the woman's telephone number.
At the bottom of the message was the woman's telephone number.
"I called her for more details," the professor told the paper, "and I requested her to tell her husband to contact me. This was so that I may hear his side of the story as well -since it has been my habit to listen to both sides.
"She told me that her husband was angry with her and had walked out. So I told her that a Mehram (a male relative) should come along with her to talk to me."
"Thus, someone called me telling me that he was her brother. He asked me to come to the house to help his sister in solving her problem.
"But I apologized saying that I don't call on people in their homes unless all the conflicting parties are present.
However, "Owing to his insistence and pressure, which was tantamount to pleading, we agreed to meet at a place to be determined later.
"The very next day he called after Dhuhr prayers and said that due to unforeseen circumstances he wanted me to see him after half an hour in a public restaurant that serves luncheon meals to families. He told me that the meeting would not last more than half an hour.
"In view of his circumstance and since I was on my way home after finishing from a training course which was close to the restaurant, I went to the restaurant.
"I stepped through the door into the restaurant and started looking for the person who had made me understand that he would be there waiting for me.
"But I was taken aback when a veiled woman appeared before me, asking for my name. I answered her, saying that I was the man she was expecting and that I had expected her to be with her brother.
In reply, she introduced herself, saying that she was the one seeking my help.
"Amazed, I asked her about her brother who had asked to see me. She replied that he was on his way.
"I spontaneously walked out to wait for the so-called person but was stunned when two of the Commission's staffers tried to forcibly arrest me.
"One of them was in police uniform. They overpowered me and led me outside the restaurant where they forcibly seized all my personal belongings -papers, ID, mobile phone, keys, money and other things. Then they handcuffed me and pushed me to their van after they covered my face with my Ghutra."
The professor said he was driven to the Commission's detention centre and held for more than three hours during which he was exposed to all kinds of mental and psychological pressure.
For example, he said, they handcuffed him from the time of arrest until he was sent to police custody -more than three hours in all with the exception of five minutes when they removed the chain.
"They used all methods of deception and eventually made me sign some papers the contents of which I did not realize then because of my poor health and psychological condition. Not only this, but they also mocked and made fun of me and some of them offended me. They didn't care about my health condition, that I am a diabetic.
"Because of their inhumane treatment, I suffered from hypoglycemia and developed sugar-coma more than once during that period.
"One of them dressed in a police uniform stood close overbearingly. He humiliated me and brutally treated me.
"After several pleas he agreed to give me water to quench my thirst and alleviate my suffering. The very same person had refused to unchain me when I needed to go to the toilet, which affected my bladder. I am still suffering from pain in my bladder.
They questioned in a manner characterized by deception, threat and cunning…
"In addition, they overpowered me and forcibly took my car's keys and searched my papers. They seized my laptop and tampered with its contents. They also forcibly seized my cellular phone and also tampered with its contents.
"Thus, they encroached on my privacy as a human being."
The professor went on to make his defence, listing point by point, his arguments.
"I would like to acquaint the readers with a dangerous violation committed by the commission's staffers," he said, "as manifested in the Ministry of Interior's circular dated 2-7-2007 based on the Royal Order dated 3-12-81, which clearly states that the role of the Commission ends upon arresting a person and directly handing him to the police.
"The circular also strictly prohibits transfer of any person, female or male, to the Commission's centres regardless of the circumstances."
"And any staffer found sending the arrested person to any of the Commission's centres shall be immediately stopped from working and also be referred for interrogation," he said, citing the circular.
"The staffers who appeared before the judge admitted that they had interrogated me as well as the woman. Doubtless, this dangerous attitude explicitly shows that they adamantly ignored the instruction, which therefore nullifies all their actions on the basis of the legal principle that 'What is based on falsehood is false.'"
The academic then narrated part of the testimony of the staffers before the judge, which was recorded in the charge sheet.
According to the academic, the testimony says: "We received a call from a keenly religious person reporting a man in illegal seclusion with a woman who is not her guardian, sitting in the family section of a restaurant … in a compromising position.
The academic said the charge sheet also said that "the man entered from one door and the woman entered from another door."
The academic claimed that the testimony proves premeditated intention, an engineered plot to defame him.
The professor then raised several questions that can be reviewed at the paper's website.
The paper also published the The Woman's Alleged Letter Pleading for Help
This is the letter that was allegedly sent in a sealed envelope to the professor through a messenger. It was published by the Arabic daily Al-Madina. To His Excellency Dr ……..
After greetings
I am writing my problem to you hoping to find a solution for it.
Sir, I am a married woman aged 24. I am married to a businessman and I have a girl child who is the light of my dark life.
My marriage was a traditional one; thus I didn't see my husband or talk to him until the marriage, which took place in haste.
But after the marriage I discovered that he was not the man I had dreamt of, nor did he have the qualities I was looking for. I didn't find in him a warm heart that I was dreaming of, who would be close to me or lend an ear to my pains. In addition, he frequently travels abroad because of the nature of his business. How this made me feel miserable and sad. This has created a huge vacuum in my broken heart. This is why I go out a lot, roaming the markets and amusement parks and attending all wedding parties.
I made a lot of spontaneous friendships and became addicted to chatting on the phone in order to fill the vacuum caused by my husband's absences. I am suffering from pain in my ears due excessive use of the mobile phone, which compounds my pains.
Despite all my suffering, I am still missing the warm company of my husband, which consoles me and takes me away from my illusions. He never ever enquires about my pains, delusions or even about the family affairs.
This made me suspect that my husband has dubious relations and affairs with other women. I sat with him several times to find a solution to this peculiar situation but all my attempts were in vain.
Sir, I want you to guide me in order to save my life from destruction.
With all my due respect and appreciation.
The dankprofessor will attempt to find out how persons living in the West can support the professor. Of course, public support could hurt the professor by inciting the religious police. So if such occurs, it must be done with great care.
For more details on the case do click on the link to the Al-Madina Arabic article.
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NetBeans 7.1 Patch 3 (May 21st, 2012)
- NetBeans IDE 7.1 Patch 3 is an update to NetBeans IDE 7.1, 7.1.1 and 7.1.2 and contains fixes for following bugs .
NetBeans 7.1.2 (Apr 26th, 2012)
- NetBeans IDE 7.1.2 is an update to NetBeans IDE 7.1 and NetBeans IDE 7.1.1, and contains the following highlights:
- Java SE 7u4 Support, which includes the first Oracle JDK release for Mac OS X
- JavaFX 2.1 Support (Bundled with the JDK. Windows and Mac only.)
- Ant upgrade to version 1.8.3
- Integration of recent patches
- Minor performance improvements
The following bugzilla query lists an approximate set of bugs resolved in the NetBeans 7.1.2 release:
Bugs resolved in NetBeans 7.1.2
NetBeans 7.1.1 (Feb 29th, 2012)
- NetBeans 7.1.1 is available as an update of NetBeans 7.1, and can be installed using the IDE's Plugins dialog.
- There are a couple exceptions - the following will not be updated when using the Plugins dialog:
- Bundled GlassFish 3.1.2 or the Java ME SDK 3.0.5 - after updating NetBeans 7.1 using the Plugins dialog, your IDE will continue to use GlassFish 3.1.1 and or Java ME SDK 3.0, which were included in NetBeans 7.1. To use the updated version of GlassFish and/or Java ME SDK, download and install them separately, and register them in the IDE's Services tab.
- IDE branding/version - the updated IDE will still be labeled as NetBeans 7.1, not 7.1.1
The following bugzilla query lists an approximate set of bugs resolved in the NetBeans 7.1.1 release, compared to NetBeans 7.1:


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The 3:1 Rule
Bil VornDick always uses the 3:1 Rule when mic'ing instruments in stereo. Here's how it works: If your two microphones are each one unit— for example, 1'—away from the instrument, then there should be three units (3' in this example) between the two microphones. VornDick also recommends keeping the two microphones between 90 and 120 degrees of each other.
Following the 3:1 Rule ensures that your recordings will be in phase, without danger of cancellation problems later in the mixing process.
Let's talk specifics. How do you mic up
Béla Fleck's banjo?
I use a 3:1 mic'ing technique normally on Béla [see sidebar, "The 3:1 Rule"]. As to which mics I use, it really depends on what banjo he's playing. It depends on the timbre of the instrument. With Earl Scruggs, I'd normally used a [Neumann] KM 84 and a [Neumann] U 87. I used the KM 84 on the high side and the U 87 on the low side. That's what he liked. But every banjo is different. If it was a very mellow banjo, then I would probably put a Milab DC-96B on the low side or a Sony ECM-33P on the low side and a KM 84 or a Miktek C5 on the high—I'm using that one a lot. But you really have to listen to the instrument first before you just stick mics up.
How important is the room that you're
recording in to the final result you get?
Very important. I have the musician move around in the room to find the spot that translates best for the overtones of the instrument. The bass is very particular to axial modes [resonances caused by sound bouncing between two parallel surfaces] in the room, where the guitar wouldn't be as much. So if I'm going into a new room, I'll have the musician walk around and play, sit, and then move around some more. Find where the instrument sounds like the instrument to them, then the rest of it's easy.
Do you mic acoustic guitar the same
way that you do banjo, using two
Yes, I do. Because I hear in three dimensions and you can't get three dimensions with one mic.
Do you have go-to acoustic guitar mics?
Yeah, I have a pair of [Neumann] KM 54s that I like a lot. Then the Miktek C5s—I'm using those a lot more than the KM 84s. I used to use KM 84s all the time, but the C5, I really believe in that mic.
That's great to hear because that mic is
fairly affordable compared to the others
you mentioned.
When it comes down to it, it's the performance. You could record it on a Shure SM57, and if you've got the performance, that's what the people driving down the road are going for. A lot of people use SM81s. The KSM141s, the new mics by Shure, a lot of people are using those. It depends on the budget that you have.
How far away do you place the two mics
when you're recording acoustic guitar?
They're about 8" off. If you're sitting with the guitar in your lap, there's one coming in to where the curve reaches the neck; it's not faced toward the hole. And the other one is off the player's shoulder, the right shoulder coming down. If you look at the symmetry and the angles, they're facing to the back of the hole on the guitar, which is where the sound comes resonating from.
You're trying to capture the sound of
the whole body of the instrument, not
just getting the surface of it?
So you place the mics fairly close up?
It depends … if it's a solo guitar, I move them back. But if it's in an ensemble, with a bunch of people sitting around, it's usually about 8" or so.
I use the 3:1 rule, then move the mics around with the artist playing the instrument. If you're going to mic in stereo, put the headphones on and make sure that the left mic is left and the right mic is right and then move them around, and ask the player, "Does this sound like your guitar?"
You'd be amazed, if you move a microphone just a little bit in, a little bit to the left, a little bit to the right, what a difference that will make, depending on the overtone series of the instrument and the key that it's in. And the instrument, of course, is going to resonate in different keys.
Do you end up panning those two
microphones across the stereo field or
do you bring them pretty close together?
I bring them to 9 and 3 o'clock. If you pan them all the way left and right, once it gets to a transmitter on a radio station you could have phase cancellation. I'm still old school, making records for radio. But if I were stacking a couple of guitars, I wouldn't have them both panned that way. I'd have one at 8 o'clock and 1 o'clock and the other one at 10 o'clock and 4 o'clock.
Do you worry about bleed between the
instruments when you record multiple
musicians at the same time?
If you get your angles and your positioning of your microphones, and you have them pretty much out of phase with the mics on the other players, then there really isn't that much problem if you're in a cardioid pattern. A good example: I had Jerry Douglas, Tony Rice, and Earl Scruggs sitting within three feet of each other on one of Jerry's recent albums, and I was able to punch some stuff in fine.
You've been involved with some very interesting
projects for Fishman, creating the
guitar images for the Aura system, and also
the new Retro series guitars for Martin.
The idea was that you took guitars into
the studio and recorded "images" of them,
which are then embedded in the guitar
electronics. Were those guitars recorded in
a tightly controlled room?
Yes, I had them in an environment where there was a baffle behind the guitar, so I wasn't receiving any environment in the signal path. All you were hearing was the guitar.


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Assert (v. t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.
Assert (v. t.) To maintain; to defend.
Assert (v. t.) To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.