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Sir Dillon wrote:lets limit them to ten pics per entry. I don't mind looking at a bunch of pics per entry but I don't really want to see in progress pics or plans.
Are you going to inforce this rule? I think we sort of missed this rule and it seems that many people (including myself) posted more then ten pics.
I forgot about this too, and I wrote it! Well, I have to enforce it since I am sure some people followed the rules and limited themselves to ten pics. However, my intention (which wasn't clear of course) was to keep out "building in progress" pics, and no one has any of those. So the spirit of the law was obeyed. If you submitted more than ten you can delete the extra pics from your folder or page. If you don't want to do that, I will just look at the first 10 pics shown. You don't have to post a new link, they should still work.
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An electroencephalogram (EEG) is a test that
measures and records the electrical activity of your brain. Special sensors
(electrodes) are attached to your head and hooked by
wires to a computer. The computer records your brain's electrical activity on
the screen or on paper as wavy lines. Certain conditions, such as
seizures, can be seen by the changes in the normal
pattern of the brain's electrical activity.
electroencephalogram (EEG) may be done to:
Before the day of the
electroencephalogram (EEG) test, tell your doctor if you are taking any
medicines. Your doctor may ask you to stop taking certain medicines (such as
sedatives and tranquilizers, muscle relaxants,
sleeping aids, or medicines used to treat seizures) before the test. These
medicines can affect your brain's usual electrical activity and cause abnormal
test results.
Do not eat or drink foods that have caffeine (such
as coffee, tea, cola, and chocolate) for 12 hours before the test.
Since the electrodes are attached to your scalp, make sure
your hair is clean and free of sprays, oils, creams, and lotions. Shampoo your
hair and rinse with clear water the evening before or the morning of the test.
Do not put any hair conditioner or oil on after shampooing.
find certain types of abnormal electrical activity in the brain, you may have
to be asleep during the recording. You may be asked not to sleep at all the
night before the test or to sleep less (about 4 or 5 hours) by going to bed
later and getting up earlier than usual. If your child is going to be tested,
try to keep him or her from taking naps just before the test. If you know that
you are going to have a sleep-deprived EEG, plan to have someone drive you to
and from the test.
An electroencephalogram (EEG) may be
done in a hospital or in a doctor's office by an EEG technologist. The EEG
record is read by a doctor who is specially trained to diagnose and treat
disorders affecting the nervous system (neurologist).
You will be asked to lie on
your back on a bed or table or relax in a chair with your eyes closed. The EEG
technologist will attach several flat metal discs (electrodes) to different
places on your head, using a sticky paste to hold the electrodes in place. A
cap with fixed electrodes may be placed on your head instead of individual
electrodes. In rare cases, these electrodes may be attached to the scalp with
tiny needles.
The electrodes are hooked by wires to a computer
that records the electrical activity inside the brain. A machine can show the
activity as a series of wavy lines drawn by a row of pens on a moving piece of
paper or as an image on the computer screen.
Lie still with your
eyes closed during the recording, and do not talk to the technologist unless
you need to. The technologist will watch you directly or through a window
during the test. The recording may be stopped from time to time to allow you to
stretch and reposition yourself.
The technologist may ask you to
do different things during the test to record what activity your brain does at
that time.
An EEG takes 1 to 2 hours. After the test, you may do your
normal activities. But if you were sleep-deprived or given a sleep medicine,
have someone drive you home after the test.
There is no pain with an
electroencephalogram (EEG).
If paste is used to hold the
electrodes, some paste may stay in your hair after the test, so you will have
to wash your hair to remove it. If needle electrodes are used (which is rare),
you will feel a brief, sharp prick (about like having a hair pulled out) when
each electrode is inserted. If electrodes are placed in your nose, they may
cause a tickling feeling and, rarely, some soreness or a small amount of
bleeding for 1 to 2 days after the test.
If you are asked to
breathe rapidly, you may feel lightheaded or have some numbness in your
fingers. This reaction is normal. It will go away a few minutes after you start
breathing normally again.
An electroencephalogram (EEG) is a very safe
test. The electrical activity of your brain is recorded, but at no time is any
electrical current put into your body. An EEG should not be confused with
electroshock (electroconvulsive) therapy.
If you have a seizure
disorder such as epilepsy, a seizure may be triggered by the flashing lights or
by hyperventilation. If this occurs, the technologist is trained to take care
of you during the seizure.
electroencephalogram (EEG) is a test that measures and
records the electrical activity of your brain. Special sensors (electrodes) are attached to your head and hooked by
wires to a computer. EEG test results are ready on the same or the next
There are several types of brain waves:
In adults who are awake, the
EEG shows mostly alpha waves and beta waves.
The two sides of the brain
show similar patterns of electrical activity.
There are no abnormal bursts
of electrical activity and no slow brain waves on the EEG tracing.
If flashing lights (photic
stimulation) are used during the test, one area of the brain (the occipital
region) may have a brief response after each flash of light, but the brain
waves are normal.
The two sides of the brain
show different patterns of electrical activity. This may mean a problem in one
area or side of the brain is present.
The EEG shows sudden bursts of
electrical activity (spikes) or sudden slowing of brain waves in the brain.
These changes may be caused by a brain tumor, infection, injury,
stroke, or
epilepsy. When a person has epilepsy, the location and
exact pattern of the abnormal brain waves may help show what type of epilepsy
or seizures the person has. Keep in mind that in many people with epilepsy, the
EEG may appear completely normal between seizures. An EEG by itself does not
diagnose or rule out epilepsy or a seizure problem.
The EEG records changes in the
brain waves that may not be in just one area of the brain. A problem affecting
the entire brain—such as drug intoxication, infections (encephalitis), or metabolic disorders (such as
diabetic ketoacidosis) that change the chemical
balance in the body, including the brain—may cause these kinds of
The EEG shows delta waves or
too many theta waves in adults who are awake. These results may mean brain
injury or a brain illness is present. Some medicines can also cause
The EEG shows no electrical
activity in the brain (a "flat" or "straight-line" EEG). This means that brain
function has stopped, which is usually caused by lack of oxygen or blood flow
inside the brain. This may happen when a person has been in a coma. In some
cases, severe drug-induced sedation can cause a flat EEG.
Reasons you may not be able to
have the test or why the results may not be helpful include:
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Saunders.Fischbach FT, Dunning MB III, eds. (2009).
Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 8th ed.
Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.Pagana KD, Pagana TJ (2010). Mosby's Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests, 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby Elsevier.
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Handicapped parking is currently relocated to Boylston St, between Ipswich and Jersey Street.
Parking of all types is extremely limited around Fenway Park. A limited amount of handicap parking is available on Jersey Street between Van Ness Street and Boylston Street near Gate D. There are spaces also on Ipswich Street near Gate B. There are also several parking lots and garages around Fenway Park off Brookline Avenue and off Lansdowne Street. There is a fee to park at any of the parking lots and garages.
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Lee Edge was under the influence of drink when he targeted Everton Greaves, who was walking to his mother's house in Hanley.Thus involving the householder:
Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court yesterday heard Mr Greaves was on Moorland Road, Burslem, when he saw three drunken men at 8.20pm on April 17 last year.
"One was the defendant and he shouted he wanted to the fight the complainant," said prosecutor David Bennett.
"He chased the complainant along Hanley Road shouting racist and homophobic insults and demanding his telephone.
"He punched him several times to the floor and continued to punch and kick him. The attack continued in the middle of the road."
The court heard Mr Greaves managed to get to his feet and sought refuge in a nearby garden. But Edge followed him into the garden and continued the attack.
Mr Bennett said the householder intervened and at one stage threatened to set his dog on Edge if he did not stop.Well, well, well…
"Edge demanded a gold tooth (from Mr Greaves) and tried to knock it out. He punched him in the mouth and ran off. The complainant's mobile phone, worth £30, was taken," said Mr Bennett.
Mitigation will be awesome, I'm sure:
Anis Ali, mitigating, said Edge has a lot to learn regarding his inability to control aggression.Errr, yes. You could say that!
He said the best mitigation was Edge's guilty plea, which spared Mr Greaves the ordeal of giving evidence and having it challenged.Interesting comment. Just how could a fairly straightforward-seeming violent street robbery be 'challenged'?
Mr Ali added: "He understands he has to adopt a more sensible attitude towards his life. He expresses a renewed sense of optimism towards his life. He understands he has to address his drinking habit."Note, he just 'understands'. There's no indication he actually plans to DO any of these things!
Judge Paul Glenn told Edge the offence was aggravated by his homophobic and racist abuse.Well, of course! I mean, the beating and robbery alone wasn't half as bad otherwise…
In the comments, we see that people are no longer fooled by the headline, when it comes to sentencing:
by focusboyNor would anyone!
"So, he's going to serve "up to" half the sentence, which makes it 2 years, and he's already done 210 days on remand which is taken in to account, so he's actually going to do a lot less than a year and a half.
I don't call that being "jailed for four years"."
However, a clue to that odd claim by the defence pops into the comments:
by Danni_1991
"Before you judge this 'homophobic thug' please read this story
Then tell me if he is homophobic why is it that many of his friends are homosexual Yes he did do something wrong but i can tell you one thing for sure he is not homophobic
So get from behind your keyboards in your pretty little world and get to the real world . You people judge people far to quickly and if you have opened the link i have pasted above you will realise that Everton Greaves isnt the victim he makes out he is he is just as bad. Im not saying that what Lee did was right because it was far from right ! And he knows this. I will stand by whatever I say."That link leads to this story:
Everton Greaves committed a "sneak in" burglary at a house in Hamil Road, Burslem, at 6.30pm on Friday, April 26, Stafford Crown Court heard.Well, well, well… I think this whole affair is what is commonly known as a 'S**t on s**t attack'…
Prosecutor Neil Ahuja said one of the householders left her home with her boyfriend and his friend inside. She left the door closed but unlocked. But when she returned five minutes later she saw the defendant walking out her front door carrying three cans of lager with a jumper draped over them.
"She alerted her boyfriend and his friend and they began to follow the defendant," said Mr Ahuja.
"She continued to keep a view on Hamil Road. She saw the defendant come out an alleyway where he recovered about 20 CDs which had been taken from her house.
"Her boyfriend and his friend followed to a property in High Lane. When they went on the driveway to get the property back they saw the defendant holding a small knife."
The defendant went into the house and came out with a larger knife.
The police had already been called and they arrested the defendant.
Greaves, aged 43, now of Grove Place, Shelton, pleaded guilty to burglary and affray.
Interestingly, the defence clearly recycles the same old excuses – amazingly, drink is to blame for burglary too!
Peter McCartney, mitigating, said these offences were out of character for Greaves. "He drank too much," said Mr McCartney.But was sober enough to steal lager and DVDs, and not, say, cushion covers?


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Perhaps the least funny but most memorable moment of Wednesday's "Saturday Night Live Christmas Special" came during a first-season clip of the original cast goofing around while singing "Winter Wonderland."
The late 1975 scene proved bittersweet, recalling the youthful, irreverent spirit that propelled the show's launch into pop culture history while reminding us of the two cast members who died far too soon, John Belushi and Gilda Radner.
The special arrived amid news that a Wisconsin branch of Gilda's Club – the cancer support group named for Radner, who succumbed to ovarian cancer in 1989 – became the latest to remove her name from the charity. The reason, reports the Wisconsin State Journal, is that the operators believe college-age folks never heard of Radner.
Which is a shame, both for her legacy as a comedian and as a symbol in the struggle against cancer.
For those who weren't around for the first wave of "SNL" glory days, we'd hope her name might at least raise images of a late-night comedy pioneer who helped pave the way for the later successes of Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, among others. But here's all you really need to know about Gilda Radner: she was damn funny.
Radner became one of the breakout stars of the original cast by committing her all to characters odd and seemingly innocent, but with an edge. Her teen-aged nasally nerd, Lisa Loopner, presaged the growth of geek culture (and geek humor). In Emily Litella, Radner gave us a little old lady whose hearing problems ("What's all this about violins on television?") belied her sharp tongue (calling "Weekend Update" anchor Jane Curtain a "b----," long before that word turned up regularly on TV).
Her Baba Wawa character remains the best Barbara Walters spoof. Radner's Roseanne Rosannadanna pundit, whose commentaries veered into stomach-testing tangents, presented an attractive comedian unafraid to dive into the disgusting for laughs, nearly four decades before the hilarious "Bridesmaids."
One of our favorite Radner creations is one of her lesser known: Judy Miller, a floppy moppet of a girl scout who conjures a fantasy world of characters on a TV show put on in her bedroom – offering insight into the vivid imagination and exuberance that made Radner a comic force.
Radner died at age 42, less than a decade after leaving "SNL." Her husband, the great comic actor Gene Wilder, helped establish Gilda's Club in her memory. If Radner were with us today, we'd like to thinking she'd be making us laugh, still the household name she became all those years ago.
Those of us who saw the original shows won't forget her. But it's also important that those born after her time get to know her work and learn at least one of the reasons she's well remembered by many. Maybe the next "SNL" special should be "The Best of Gilda Radner." In the meantime, check out some videos below that offer glimpses of Gilda at her greatest:
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Former Vikings punter Chris Kluwe plans to sue team
Former punter Chris Kluwe will sue the Minnesota Vikings over his release from the team last year in hopes of getting the club to publicly unveil the findings of an investigation into the matter. Kluwe and his attorney, Clayton Halunen, made the announcement at a media conference Tuesday.
Halunen said the lawsuit will allege religious discrimination, sexual orientation discrimination, defamation and tortious interference with contractual obligations, resulting in Kluwe's release from the team in May 2013 after what he says was a pattern of intolerant language by special teams coordinator Mike Priefer related to Kluwe's activism on gay marriage.
The media conference was called after Halunen received word Monday from the Vikings that they had "no intent" to release the report to Kluwe's side or the public. Halunen strongly suggested its release would prompt the lawsuit to be dropped.
"We would like to resolve this out of court if we can," Halunen told reporters.
Halunen said there had been settlement talks in which the Vikings would give $1 million to Kluwe, who would donate it to LGBT causes. Those are now on hold pending release of the report.
The Vikings retained former Minnesota Supreme Court justice Eric Magnuson and former U.S. Department of Justice trial attorney Chris Madel to complete what it called an independent review of the matter Jan. 3, the same day Kluwe made his allegations in a Deadspin.com post.
The Vikings' legal team refuted Halunen's suggestion that the report won't be made public and released a statement Tuesday which read in part: "At no time during the July 14 meeting did Madel, Magnuson, or (Jennifer) Robbins tell Halunen that the Vikings 'would not provide a copy of the report to either Kluwe or the public' as Halunen's press release of this morning states."
Minutes before Kluwe's media conference began Tuesday, the team released a statement saying it has "never made or broken promises" about the release of its report, has retained the employment law firm Littler Mendelson P.C. to review the report and has a meeting scheduled with Halunen on Thursday to discuss next steps.
"As we have consistently communicated throughout this process, the Vikings will have further comment when the investigation is entirely complete and the team has made determinations on next steps," the team's statement said.
Priefer was retained as Minnesota's special teams coordinator under new coach Mike Zimmer, who replaced Leslie Frazier in January.
Halunen said he has met with the Vikings' attorneys regularly over the past six months and learned many of the report's findings, including what he says was corroboration from witnesses of one of Kluwe's most explosive allegations — that Priefer said before a special teams meeting, "We should round up all the gays, send them to an island, and then nuke it until it glows."
After twice denying making the statement, Priefer eventually admitted it upon learning what witnesses had said, according to Halunen, who said Kluwe also was subjected to statements by Priefer about being agnostic.
"We also know that Chris' claims were corroborated by many different witnesses, and that this goes up to the highest ranks of Vikings management," Halunen said.
"We understand that there is evidence in the record that would connect (general manager) Rick Spielman to knowledge of Chris' reports, accusations against Priefer prior to Chris' (release from) his contract, clearly creating a connection in time between the decision to not renew his contract and his reporting to Les Pico (the Vikings' executive director of player development/legal) of Priefer's homophobic and bigoted statements."
The Vikings have maintained Kluwe was released for football reasons only.
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Former White House attorney held liable in ex-wife's beating
Jury awards $28.6 million for 2010 attack
STAMFORD -- A Stamford jury Tuesday afternoon awarded the ex-wife of former White House attorney John Michael Farren $28.6 million in damages for her near-fatal beating in their New Canaan mansion in 2010
The jury reached its verdict in favor of Mary Margaret Farren about 90 minutes after Judge Robert Genuario sent them to begin deliberations, holding her former husband liable for assault and battery, and the intentional infliction of emotional distress.
The judgment capped about a week of testimony during which 20 witnesses testified before a jury of three men and three women. Among those to take the stand was Mary Farren, 47, who for about 90 minutes recounted the assault and lingering emotional and physical injuries she sustained.
John Farren, 60, had represented himself for months in the civil case, but did not appear once during the trial to defend himself or cross examine his wife's witnesses. On the day the trial was to begin a week ago Monday, Farren sent an email to the court saying he had entered a Hartford-area hospital but giving no reason for his hospitalization.
Genuario said at the close of proceedings Tuesday that Farren had not sent any more communications to the court explaining his hospitalization.
Farren has been charged criminally with attempted murder, first-degree assault and risk of injury to a minor, and is facing a maximum 70 years in jail. No date has been set for that trial, but he is now scheduled to appear for a hearing in January.
According to testimony at trial, Farren unexpectedly received divorce papers on Jan. 4, 2010, and had tried to get his wife, a high-powered lawyer herself, to withdraw the action.
Mary Farren, who had given birth to their second daughter four months earlier, testified that she agreed to hold off on the divorce if the two would go to marriage counseling, but refused to call her attorneys and stop the divorce action.
While John Farren, who worked for former President George W. Bush as a deputy White House counsel and before that as lead attorney for the Xerox Corp., at first tried to win over his wife on the matter, but by the evening of Jan. 6 he became angrier.
Before lunging at her, Mrs. Farren remembered her husband saying to her, "I have done everything for you. I don't deserve this."
Mary Farren said as the two were in the master bedroom of their 9,500-square-foot Wahackme Road home, he sprang at her, grabbing her by the throat and tackling her before banging her head against the hardwood floor. She said he then began beating her with his fists before grabbing her and throwing her across the room. He then grabbed a heavy flashlight from his night stand and began beating her with it, she testified.
At one point she told him to stop and that they could work it out, but Farren told her that she was just saying that because she was scared that he would kill her, she said.
When she came to after passing out for a second time during the attack, Farren was not in the bedroom any longer and she got to her feet and hustled her two children into a car and fled to the first home she could see with lights on.
Police and medics found her lying in a pool of blood just inside the front door of a home on nearby Weed Street.
Videotape from the hospital just hours after the attack show her with a huge gash in hear head, cuts and bruises all over her face.
After the judgment came in Tuesday afternoon, Mary Farren's attorneys, Ernie Teitell and Paul Slager, said the jury made the right decision.
"We presented the case and the jury has spoken. We accept their decision," Teitell said.
"We don't believe this is time for a celebration, but it is one more step toward justice taking place for Mary Margaret," Slager said.
One witness the jury heard in the case, Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor Albert Sabella, said that even though the victim held a half-million-dollar-a-year job at the Washington, D.C., office of Skadden, Arps, it was questionable whether she could be employed at all.
"Based on my review of the medical record ... she would be unemployable for any job," he said.
As a result of a brain injury caused in the attack and emotional trauma that includes panic attacks and a diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder, she is unable to concentrate, has trouble figuring out how to begin tasks and is incapable of analyzing information and taking action, Sabella said.
Before asking them to award $25.8 million in damages, Slager told the jury that they probably did not expect the trial they got, as he pointed to the empty defense table.
Slager told them that Mrs. Farren was just a "shell" of her former self and reminded them of the videotaped deposition of John Farren in which he invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination about 100 times, but never denied beating, strangling and bludgeoning his wife with the flashlight, he said.
Even if Farren was at trial, Slager told the jury to remember the witnesses he and Teitell presented and asked, "What could he have asked that wouldn't have made it worse?"


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George W. Bush Has Lowest Favorable Rating of Any Living President
Lately we've seen Bill Clinton stumping for President Obama as he ramps up his reelection campaign — but you likely won't see George W. Bush doing the same for GOP candidate Mitt Romney.
Why not? Probably because a new survey finds Bush has the lowest favorable rating of any living former president.
According to a CNN/ORC International poll of over 1,000 people, only 43 percent of participants had a favorable opinion of Bush. Compare that to Clinton's 66 percent favorable rating, and you see why he's been tapped to help out the Obama campaign while Romney's staff hasn't called upon Bush the same way.
What's more, when survey respondents were asked if they're better or worse off now than they were "when Bush was president," 47 percent said they're better off these days, while just 41 percent said things today are worse.
That's a statistic that CNN Polling Director Keating Holland thinks will play a big part in the upcoming election.
"Don't be surprised if the Obama campaign mentions the name of George W. Bush at every opportunity, and don't be surprised if that strategy works," Holland said, adding that the "mention of Bush's name appears to prompt at least a few people to take a more positive view of their current financial situation."


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June 22, 1996: Trailing 3-0 in the bottom of the ninth inning, the Orioles hit three home runs to defeat the Kansas City Royals, 5-3. Rafael Palmeiro, Bobby Bonilla and Mark Smith connect for the second-place Birds (39-31).
June 20, 1974: Moses Malone, a highly recruited, 6-foot-11 center from Petersburg, Va., signs a grant-in-aid to attend Maryland. The Terps' jubilation is short-lived: In August, before having started school, Malone turns pro with the Utah Stars of the American Basketball Association.
June 21, 1967: Guy St. Vil's goal gives the Baltimore Bays a 1-0 victory over the Los Angeles Toros in a National Professional Soccer League contest. The game is played before an announced 3,463 at the 93,000-seat Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The Bays will advance to the league championship series before losing to the Oakland Clippers.
June 15, 1966: Orioles relievers have retired 38 straight batters over five games after Moe Drabowsky's 31/3 innings of perfect pitching in a 6-4 victory over the Washington Senators at D.C. Stadium. Stu Miller, Eddie Watt and Gene Brabender have also contributed to the streak, which ends this day.
June 22, 1961: "I just didn't think I had it anymore," Colts fullback Alan Ameche says, announcing his retirement, which resulted from a torn Achilles tendon. The 1954 Heisman Trophy winner, Ameche, 28, was Baltimore's first-round draft pick in 1955, when he led the NFL in rushing. He scored the winning touchdown in the Colts' 1958 sudden-death championship win.
June 20, 1950: Orioles pitchers allow 14 walks — five in the first inning alone — in losing, 17-6, to the Buffalo Bisons in an International League game.
June 20, 1947: In a frantic race on the Patapsco River, Poly's crew defeats City's by six lengths to win the Maryland Scholastic Association rowing title. Poly's eight-oared shell pulls away near the Hanover Street Bridge to win the mile event.
June 21, 1935: Boxing in a driving rain at Oriole Park, Baltimore's Harry Jeffra scores an eight-round decision over Eddie Burl. It's the 24th pro bout without a loss for Jeffra, of Pigtown, who'll capture the world bantamweight title in 1937.
June 20, 1943: Andy Etchebarren, an Orioles catcher on their first two world championship teams and the man who saved Frank Robinson from drowning at a team pool party in August 1966.


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February 22, 2013
Neocon hack Ann Coulter told a studio full of Libertarians "why people think [they] are pussies" on Fox Business Network's "Stossel" program when addressing the War on Drugs.
Bigmouth Coulter is always pulling empty publicity stunts; this time she argued for the continuation of the "war on terror" and why we may "want to fund the insurgents," she misinterpreted ending the war on drugs as: "Libertarians just want to legalize pot," and said gays can marry – as long as they marry "people of the opposite sex."
In 2011, Coulter appeared on Bill O'Reilly's Fox show basically stating the Japanese should be thankful for the radiation from the melted down Fukushima reactors as radiation is actually "good for you."
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To help give credibility to beer professionals around the world, Ray Daniels, a veteran of the U.S. beer industry and president of the Craft Beer Institute, created the Cicerone Certification Program. Now in its second year, the program offers certification at three levels: Certified Beer Server, Certified Cicerone and Master Cicerone.
Each level of certification has prerequisites for enrolling, and candidates are required to take exams that demonstrate their beer knowledge, from service to storage to style. The final level of certification, Master Cicerone, is the equivalent of the wine world's Master Sommelier.
Approximately 400 people have earned Certified Beer Server or Certified Cicerone titles, according to the program's web site (www.cicerone.org).
The goal of the program is to make sure "consumers receive the best possible beer and enjoy its flavors to the greatest extent possible," according to the web site. To do this, the program insists beer servers have expertise in the following crucial areas: beer storage, sales and service, styles and culture, tasting and flavors, brewing ingredients and processes, and pairing beer with food.
The web site includes areas for aspiring cicerones to set goals, check out the syllabus for the Certified Cicerone and Master Cicerone exams, find a nearby review course or exam and see the names of supporters and fellow certified individuals.
Upcoming exam dates are:
- June 14: Chicago, location to be announced
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Posted on Jan 11, 2012
Melanie Elturk
For many, the tragic events of 9/11 roused many to remove the hijab, but for Wajiha Mohar, of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, it only strengthened her conviction in hijab and Islam.
Shortly after she started wearing hijab, Wajiha Mohar was walking on her college campus of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, when the twin towers were hit on 9/11. A policeman approached her with a warning, "If I were you, I wouldn't be walking alone right now." It wasn't long until she learned the Islamic Center on campus had been vandalized. On a campus in southern Virginia with very few women who wear hijab, her father came to campus to take her home. Her father was so scared that he asked Wajiha to take her hijab off for a week or two until things calmed down. Wajiha refused and said she had nothing to be ashamed of and wasn't going to falter in her conviction even if temporarily. "I'd rather just stay at home than leave without my hijab...my hijab is a source of pride not shame," she bravely stated.
Instead of doubting her religious obligations, Wajiha admits 9/11 made her a stronger Muslim and while she was unsure of her hijab, the tragic events only strengthened her conviction, "I now cover my head proudly, because I am representing a religion that is not only about love and peace, but is beautiful as well!"
When asked what advice she would give to girls who are struggling with hijab, she stated, "When considering wearing hijab, you should do some deep soul searching and ask yourself, 'How is my relationship with God?' It if is your wish to please Him than put on that head scarf proudly and with confidence. Muslim women considering hijab should know that the hijab is a sign of female empowerment not enslavement."
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If you happen to be a newscaster who isn't so sure of the material you're supposed to read, one way of limiting mistakes is concentrating very hard on the Teleprompter. Kara Manelli of WUFT in Gainesville, Florida displays this technique to a T as she finishes a story about a student housing lottery. She's concentrating so hard, she doesn't notice the woman behind her awkwardly trying to hide from the camera.
As you can see, Manelli's intense prompter gaze is the least of the weirdness going on in this video. There's Kristin, in the background. It's not clear if she is trying to intentionally "video bomb" the telecast or trying not to video bomb the telecast.
But the best part is what happens to Manelli eyes when she is done reading. Released from their tractor beam lock, her eyes begin to spasm all over the place in a strange sign-off that is caught by the camera.
Local news has provided all sorts of great viral video moments over the years. This video manages to cram three of those moments in one thirty second clip.


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Fees are part of casino's 'category three' license set by Gaming Control Board
Casino-goers who want to try their hand at Nemacolin Woodlands Lady Luck Casino will have to spend money before even walking onto the gaming floor.
Nemacolin general manager Chris Plummer said since the casino is attached to a resort, it's considered a category three casino.
"With the category three license, it was developed as an amenity to a resort. You have to patronize that resort in order to get entrance into the casino. That was completely set by the legislature," said Plummer.
He said Nemacolin staffers were aware that patrons would have to pay before entering the facility, unless they were staying at the resort, so they sought feedback from resort guests and employees before implementing their plan.
"There was some concern about it because it's different. There's another category three license that has it but that's it in this country. So, we were a little concerned but we definitely used feedback from guests and feedback from associates to devise this plan," he said.
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Marlins - 300 002 000 - 5 7 0 Red Sox - 000 210 03x - 6 9 0Will Middlebrooks went 3-for-4, with four RBI, including a two-run, game-tying home run in the eighth inning. Daniel Nava's second single of the night (and sixth hit in the last two games) drove in Ryan Kalish a few minutes later with the go-ahead run as the Red Sox swept the Marlins.
Again, Matsuzaka (5.1-4-4-1-4, 101) had a rough first inning, allowing three hits, one walk, and three runs; the Marlins also stole three bases. After Miami took a 3-0 lead, Dice then retired the next 14 batters.
Scott Atchison threw two scoreless innings (seventh and eighth) in relief, and Alfredo Aceves pitched the ninth, needing only seven pitches to notch the save.
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Serendipity 1.1.3 and 1.2-beta2 have been released due to a SQL injection attack reported by Dr. Neal Krawetz today. It is possible to abuse a 'commentMode' variable to inject SQL code that was targeted to the function that fetches comment information. This variable was introduced to Serendipity 1.1 - all prior versions are not affected.
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By Lord DonalBane of Blakmers
Battlefield Reporter, Pennsic Independent
A perfect summer morning at the Pennsic Fort provided the backdrop for the Opening Ceremonies Sunday. Some pointed fashion displays helped provide the impetus to officially start Pennsic XXXIX.
As is custom, Æthelmearc came to the dais first, about 20 minutes before the two belligerent kingdoms arrived. When the Midrealm and East arrived, they marched in side-by-side with a host that included royalty from nearly every kingdom in the Known World.
When all the royalty and populace had assembled, HRM Malcolm of Æthelmearc gave warm greetings to the crowd.
"Greetings and welcome to these fields of Pennsic!" HRM Malcolm said. "Never in my experience before have I seen the joy and friendship between my cousins and the people of the Known World running so strong."
HRM Malcolm then gave way to HRM Edward the Grey of the East, who also greeted the populace, but noted he had a question for HRM Radagaisus of the Midrealm. HRM Edward noted he loved the blue Tyger, which is sacred to the East.
"How came you thus to have a blue Tyger upon your shoulder and on the floor in your court?" HRM Edward asked.
HRM Radagaisus responded that he knew the Tyger was a versatile creature, such as the pelt he wore upon his shoulder.
"We noted there were unusually large Tygers unusually close to our borders," HRM Radagaisus said. "We thought they were a threat to us. We thought it best to eliminate the threat."
HRM Radagaisus then noticed HRM Edward was wearing a cape of what appeared to be dragon skin.
HRM Edward noted that in his travels, he could not put a foot down without stepping on a dragon. He noted even the smallest ones had value and went so far as to toss a basket of dragon skins to the crowss.
HRM Radagaisus took offense at this, but HRM Malcolm interceded. His Sylvan Majesty noted he had been "greatly impressed" with both his cousins and encouraged them to "look beyond certain historical differences."
HRM Edward said he would like to move beyond such differences and presented HRM Radagaisus with an arrow. As he was accepting the arrow, however HRM Radagaisus accidentally broke the arrow, causing the cannons to sound.
"Having been in this situation before, I believe this means War!" HRM Malcolm said, drawing huge cheers from the crowd.
The roll of the Kingdoms then began with Æthelmearc declaring first for the Midrealm.
HRM Tristan of Atenveldt announced that a "Western Coalition" had been formed. For the first time in memory, Atenveldt, Caid, the West and An Tir will fight as one, and on the side of the East.
HRM Jean Paul of Ansteorra then broke with tradition and declared his kingdom would ally itself with Trimaris. Trimaris would later declare for the Midrealm.
All three of the Midrealm's former principalities will fight for the Dragon, as Ealdormere, Northshield and Calontir declared for the Midrealm. The Outlands also declared for the Midrealm, honoring its alliance with Calontir.
HRM Jason of Atlantia said he would honor his kingdom's long-standing brotherhood with the East. Drachenwald, Artemesia and Lochac also declared for the East
Meridies and Gleann Abhann did not declare at the ceremony.
The Holy Kingdom of Acre, which is celebrating its 30th year, said it would continue its long alliance with the East.
The Great Dark Horde spoke last and presented an arrow to the Midrealm to cement its alliance.
House Darkyard then brought forth the Pennsic War Horn to the dais. HRM Edward then took the horn and let forth two breathy blasts to open the war.
Their Majesties then addressed the crowd for the final time.
"People of the kingdoms of the Known World… " HRM Edward said.
"… Let there be War!" HRM Radagaisus completed.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) Blake Griffin scored 18 points and the Los Angeles Clippers beat the New Orleans Hornets 93-77 on Wednesday night for their franchise record-tying 11th consecutive victory.
Jamal Crawford added 17 points, DeAndre Jordan scored 12, and Chris Paul had 10 points and 12 assists, surpassing 5,000 in his career for the Clippers, whose 19-6 record is tied with New York for second-best in the NBA.
They tied the franchise record set by the 1974-75 Buffalo Bills.
Robin Lopez scored 14 of his 22 points in the first quarter and rookie Anthony Davis added 16 for the Hornets. They lost their ninth in a row and 11th in their last 12 games while falling to 2-10 on the road. They were the last team to beat the Clippers on Nov. 26.
Four of the Clippers' five starters took the fourth quarter off, with only Willie Green coming back in after having helped build a 19-point lead to start the final period. But the Hornets couldn't get anything going against the second unit that has played a significant role in the Clippers' current run.
The Hornets staged a brief rally to open the third. Davis scored five in a row in their 12-9 run that drew them within seven. The Clippers took over from there, outscoring New Orleans 18-6 to end the third leading 75-56. They made 8 of 10 free throws, while Paul's fastbreak dunk highlighted the spurt. Griffin grabbed his teammate as Paul swung wildly from the basket.
Paul fed Griffin for a layup late in the second quarter to notch his 5,000th assist, triggering a standing ovation. Griffin got fouled on the play and made the free throw. It came during an 11-0 run that provided the Clippers' largest lead to that point, 46-30. Paul's alley-oop pass to Griffin led to a fastbreak dunk for the Clippers' final basket of the half, with them leading 48-38.
The Hornets kept it close in the opening quarter, when they trailed 22-16 after Lopez scored 14 points. He was scoreless in the second quarter when he picked up his third foul.
NOTES: At 27 years, 228 days, Paul is the third-youngest player in NBA history to reach 5,000 assists, trailing Magic Johnson and Isiah Thomas. He is the fifth-fastest to reach the milestone, needing 510 games. ... New Orleans hasn't won since Dec. 3 against Milwaukee. ... Hornets G Eric Gordon missed the game against his former team because of a sore right knee. He smiled when Clipper fans chanted his name in the final 2 1/2 minutes. ... Returning home from a four-game trip, the Clippers had a moment of silence for the 27 victims of last week's school shootings in Connecticut.


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E. DeWayne Snell, 92, North Manchester, passed away at 7:55 p.m. on April 13 at Timbercrest Healthcare Center, North Manchester.
He was born July 3, 1920 in North Manchester to Melvin and Trevah (Farley) Snell. He married Doris Bowers on July 14, 1945. He graduated from Laketon High School and attended Indiana Business College. He served in General Patton's 3rd Army 95th Infantry Division "The Iron Men Of Metz". He was awarded The Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and the Presidential Unit Citation from President Roosevelt. He was a member of the American Legion Post #286 at North Manchester and a former member of the North Manchester Lions Club, North Manchester Jaycees and Elks Lodge at Wabash. DeWayne was employed for 23 years with Heckman Bindery, North Manchester, and later retired in 1983 after 23 years as district circulation manager for Fort Wayne Newspapers. He was a member of the Manchester Church of the Brethren.
Surviving are his wife; a daughter, Marsha (Michael) Flora, Fort Wayne; a son-in-law, Robert Gonzalez, Naperville, Ill.; a brother, Robert (Shelia) Snell, Indianapolis; a sister, Joann (Russell) Hoover, North Manchester, and four granddaughters, Dr. Darcy Flora, Denver, Colo., Megan (James) Chappo, Dallas, Texas, Christine Gonzalez and Rachel Gonzalez, both of Naperville, Ill. He was preceded in death by his parents; one daughter, Tamara Gonzalez, and two sisters, Lucille Walters and Louise Sroufe.
Services will be held Saturday, April 20, at 2 p.m. at the Manchester Church of the Brethren, 1306 N. Beckley St., North Manchester, with Pastor Kurt Borgmann and Pastor Karen Eberly officiating. Calling will be at McKee Mortuary, 1401 State Road 114 West, North Manchester, on Friday, April 19, from 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m., also one hour prior to the service at the church on Saturday. Burial will follow the service at Oaklawn Cemetery, North Manchester.
Memorials may be made to Timbercrest Senior Living Community, PO Box 501, North Manchester or Manchester Church of the Brethren, 1306 Beckley Street, North Manchester.


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The past few days, you couldn't swing a dead cat without a review of the play of Alex Ovechkin that suggested (without using the word) that he's been a flop in his maiden playoff appearance.
To refresh one's memory, Ovechkin is 1-4-5, -3, in four games thus far (we'll leave out that he's also been credited with 26 hits in four games, which might be more hits than the Nats have so far this season).
But let's go back to another player, in another time. He, too, struggled in his maiden NHL playoff appearance...
...three games, two goals, one assist, no wins (although two games in the three-game sweep were settled in overtime).
The player?...Wayne Gretzky
The opponent?...The Philadelphia Flyers
It's once and always Stanley Cup Champion Washington Capitals hockey, all day, all night, all the time . . . or when I get around to it
Friday, April 18, 2008
Game 4: Flyers 4 - Caps 3 (2OT)
What is wrong with this picture?...
It captures the Capitals' performance in a nutshell. The right people, in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
Why is Alex Ovechkin in this shot and not a defenseman?
Why is Mike Knuble all alone?
The Capitals were pushed to the brink of elimination last night by the Philadelphia Flyers, who took a 3-1 lead in games after a 4-3 double-overtime win over the Caps in Philadelphia.
It might not have been a heroic effort on the part of the Caps, but it was close. After taking a punch in the nose 42 seconds into the game, courtesy of Jeff Carter, the Caps came right back with a goal by Nicklas Backstrom – his first of the series – making Bruce Boudreau look like a genius for switching him with Sergei Fedorov between the top two forward lines.
In fact, the game was unfolding pretty much the way a Caps fan might have hoped. The Backstrom goal converted the first power play the Caps had in this game (and was scored on an assist from the well-attended Ovechkin). They took a lead on a goal (another power play) from Alexander Semin – a player who had to lift his game in light of what the Flyers were doing to neutralize Ovechkin. Even when the Flyers scored late in the first to tie a wild first period, the Caps responded with a goal from the most unlikely of sources – Steve Eminger.
But the team with the seventh-best record in the NHL when leading after two periods this year could not hold that 3-2 lead. The team that was 21st in the league when trailing after two periods – four wins in 32 games – found a way to tie the game…on a power play…after a too-many-men-on-the-ice penalty, the second such infraction of the game. And the goal was scored by, who else, Daniel Briere, who up to that point seemed to be trying to do his level best to give the Caps the game on a platter, having taken three minor penalties of the incredibly silly variety before the game was 13 minutes old.
Almost 44 minutes later, there was Knuble at the doorstep, whacking in a loose puck. It might have been a hammer driving a stake into the Capitals' hopes of winning this series.
The Capitals did a lot of things right, and got them from a lot of different places…
- Alex Ovechkin had 10 hits
- Tom Poti had five blocked shots
- Boyd Gordon won 12 of 18 draws
- Nicklas Backstrom had six shots – tying his high for the year and coming on the heels of only one shot in each of the first three games -- to go with his goal and an assist.
- Milan Jurcina had four blocked shots
- Huet had his best game of the series, stopping 42 of 46 shots
But the Caps were less than the sum of their parts tonight, because there were things they didn't do, too…
- Ovechkin was held to one shot on goal, none in the last 51:16 of the game.
- The normally reliable David Steckel lost nine of 12 draws.
- Viktor Kozlov was quiet…again (no points, although he did have five shots…he is 0-0-0, -5 for the series)
- Sergei Fedorov was 0-0-0, -2 and is 0-0-0, -4 in three games since recording his lone point in the series (an assist) in Game 1.
- Shaone Morrisonn and Mike Green were a combined -5 – Morrisonn was on the ice for each of the Flyers' four goals (lingering effects from his "upper body" injury sustained a couple of weeks ago?).
What is especially frustrating about this series is that in no game – not even game three – have the Caps been thoroughly dominated by the Flyers. The Flyers have been better – not by much, but just enough and consistently so. There is that hump in each game that the Caps just haven't been able to clear. Last night it might have been converting on the second half of the 5-on-3 advantage they had in the first that could have put them up 3-1 in the first period and put the Flyers on their heels. What the Caps are learning – the hard way, to be sure – is that you don't get a lot of chances at playoff time. You'd better convert the ones you get…
…just ask Mike Knuble.
There are three names from the Caps' past to keep in mind now…Kevin Hatcher, Bengt Gustafsson, and Dale Hunter.
They were the scorers of the game winning goals the last time the Caps faced a 1-3 deficit to the Flyers in a playoff series. Who will be this year's Hatcher, Gustafsson, and Hunter?
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Boeing-Type Products
Boeing Software
MCP/Enhanced Autopilot
- Realistic Controlling of Alt/Speed etc, Increments by 1/10 100/1000
- FLCH/LVL CHNG CLIMB/DESCENT Which controls your airspeed via the pitch and not the autothrottle with a pitch limiter
- LNAV/VNAV With our CDU
- TO/GA Mode Controlling the Flight Director and thrust limit according to the situation
- Thrust Limiter in other phases of flight (with our CDU for flexible Mode/Altitude thrust control)
- ND-Selector for our Glass Cockpit
- VOR/LOC Compensating for winds, with correct intercept
- Accurate ILS/LOC and ILS GS APP modes with wind compensation and autoland/rollout/autobrakes
Software Features
- Available for 737NG, 747-400 and 777
- Resizable
- Buttons move in/out according to the selected mode
- Keyboard interface
- Support of Epic Axis
- Support of CPFlight 737 MCP Panel
- Support of Aerosoft 747 Panel (via direct serial connection and the Aerosoft Driver)
- Support of Precision Flight Controls 737 MCP Panel
- Support of Flightdeck Solutions G1 and G2 boards
747 MCP Mode
737 MCP Mode (Intervention Mode Selected)
777 MCP Mode
Glass Cockpit (PFD/ND/EICAS)
- Works with default FS Autopilot as well as our FCU
- Flight Director Inverted V and Crosshair
- Correct FMA
- Worldwide Navdata with monthly updates
- TCAS Display(FS2002 or WhazzUp)
- Displays FS Flight plans, SBP files and CDU-generated Routes
- Terrain Display (EGPWS)
- Weather Radar Display
- Standby Gauges
- Automatic 2 Engine and 4 Engine Support
Software Features
- Fully Resizable
- Bezel frames can be enabled/disabled
- Windowed/Full Screen
- Excellent Graphics Quality
- All Displays can be re-positioned and combined freely
- Displays can be Rotated left and right 90 degrees
- Brightness Factors
- Special Controls for Cockpit Builders
- OpenGL Graphics for best Image Quality
- Support for PFC Inc. Hardware (www.flypfc.com)
CDU/Flight Management System
- Implementation of the Smiths-Type CDU, with some Honeywell-Type features, the keyboard layout can be changed
- Worldwide Nav, Terminal Procedures and Airway Database ( allows user defined waypoints as well)
- navaid Tuning via ID's, frequency
- Route generation for the Glass Cockpit's ND and Quickmap (sold seperatly)
- LNAV – Compensating for winds, conditional waypoints etc.
- VNAV – Commanding climb, cruise and descent performance (via our MCP only)
- Calculations based on type specific performance data (can be configured by the user)
- Display and setting of V-Speeds
- Setting of N1 Limits for the MCP's thrust management computer
- CLB/CRZ/DES Pages
- HOLD Feature (time, distance, altitude etc.)
- SID/STAR Data
- Airway Data
- Airway Autoroute feature (for sim pilots)
- Fully operational Fix page (in connection with ND)
- Extensive covering of all real Boeing-Smiths-Type FMC features
- Generates messages and warnings
- Full screen display for cockpit builders
- Colour as well as green and white inverted display can be set
- Fonts can be defined by the user
- Fully sizable
- Dual CDU System Available
Software Features
- Full screen display for cockpit builders (no bitmap)
- Two bitmap colours brown and grey
- Font type and font colour selectable
- Input via keyboard, mouseclick
- FSUIPC offsets for lights
- Serial connection available
- Support for CFI hardware
- Support for PFC FMC hardware
- Support for Engravity FMC (737 and 747)


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Bristol's Venn festival turned three this year - the event first brought experimental joy to this corner of Bristol in 2004. Based around existing and established venues in the Stokes Croft and St. Pauls area of Bristol, many of which are next door to each other, making long walks non-existent.
The venues themselves are as diverse as the area housing them - Casablanca is a Moroccan-themed shisha bar, the Malcolm X centre is a polka-dotted hall with Jamaican lager-slash-beer, the Full Moon is a punkish pub.
Diversity is applied to the musical line-up too; dub-step to hip-hop to shouty girl punk - the linking factor being the high quality of everything on offer. Despite the intense sunshine and the presence of premier pie shop 'PieMinister' in Stokes Croft, DiS made it to gigs. In fact, we made it to many gigs. The musical policy at Venn was so all-encompassingly fantastic, that weather and food paled into insignificance with the excitement of bands weird and wonderful in venues small and large.
Now our ears throb, our eyes squint and our legs ache from dashing from gig to gig, but we're still here to comment on our quite incredible findings.
In Bristol, the streets are filling with Friday night traffic, bare tanned legs and premature drunks. From bouncered doors dotted up and down the street, pounding repetitions seep. While everyone else prepares to get crunk and party, we prepare for observed silence and delicate songs - a night in celebration of measured simplicity. St George's Hall is said to have some of the best acoustics in Bristol, galleried, high-ceilinged and archaically elegant. Audience settle in their seats and listen to music spiralling slowly into the atmosphere.
Crescent are a slow-motion band, moving forwards stately and composed. The set is no act of dramatics or fireworks, but an appropriate orchestration of time-lapse tides changing the shape of the sea. Such is their dazed state that Vashti Bunyan (pictured, left) is a comparative whirlwind of activity - songs that are thirty-seven years old sound as sprightly as they could ever have done, Bunyan's voice virtually unchanged. 'Diamond Day' arrives on stage to cheers, fleshier and brighter than on record. This is, in part, thanks to the impeccable musicianship of supporting string section – their accompaniment is sensitive and light, adding splashes of colour to a palette of greens and browns, as tales of growing crops, sunsets and the birds in a Scottish sky are recounted. Bunyan's songs are not so much 'twee' as earthy, with real human warmth. This warmth is confirmed, when she and the guitarist break into peals of laughter when an unprepared encore (the crowd insisted) doesn't go quite to plan.
Max Richter's most recent album The Blue Notebooks is a modern masterpiece, a fully formed classical work, one that crosses through the widest emotional spectrum with a fairly minimalist style. Live, there is a cellist, a violinist, a piano and a laptop. This is the problem – the set seems, mainly, to be a recreation of the recorded sound. The recreation is immaculate, the acoustics suit perfectly, but essentially this feels like a play-through of material without any real addition. As this is a Friday night, and we've been too long sat in seats, the great temptation is to leave for the other side of town and the Optimo DJ set (pictured, right). Jamaican beer is consumed, and dancing is thoroughly attempted. Music policy is unpredictable, intense fun. Cut, chopped, mixed. Even a vocal from a Eurhythmics song sends the crowd silly. Dance, keep dancing, be teased waiting for a big beat to drop in. Overhead of the DJs, eclecticism is further enhanced – Dutch vacuum-hoover porn is projected onto a screen. Confusion is fun.
Safetyword (pictured, left) are the perfect festival opening act – one about which no expectations are harboured, making what is an excellent set even more so through sheer surprise. I expect some sound-a-like minimalist art-punk, I get the total opposite – imaginative, cluttered, heart-warming music. Perhaps we could dub it maximalism: the ultimate brew of all your favourite bands, ever. Such sonic adventures don't hit the mark every time, but Safetyword never fall totally flat. Three-part sherbet sweet harmonies over the top of math-rock guitars. Clattering drums, vocal breakdowns, sing-a-long chorus, teen angst, solemnity, silly humour, time changes, Zimbabwean influence. "Foot Oven" starts out sounding like Graceland era Paul Simon, turns to Foals style precision math-rock then switches into Futureheads-esque vocal delivery. A rainbow-coloured thunderbolt of unforeseen joy to open a festival that celebrates the eclectic and the exuberant.
The sun is melting tarmac underneath our feet, humans in the street risk turning into from flesh and bone into puddles on the floor. There have been violent attacks in the area, fire engines are patrolling the streets. Political and social unrest provides a fitting backdrop for Fog (pictured, right), who – despite equipment failures – slam us with hip-hop-rock, singing of 'the bomb that rolled behind the sofa and was forgotten about.' Knowledge of Bugs provide rest and respite – delicate, pulsating, circuit-bending; ultimately unobtrusive in it's beauty. Volcano the Bear are exactly the opposite - cawing and crying for attention. Unsure of their direction, they swip-swap enticingly from eastern european folk-song to Bebop jazz improv. As much of a stage show as a musical act, they bow guitars, vandalise cymbals and fight each other onstage. Earlier in the day 'Free Venn' provided an afternoon in The Croft – a venue with the best air conditioning in Bristol. Francois and Rozi play cutesy folk, Rose Kemp is serious and forlorn, Emily Breeze(pictured, left) threatens us with a thundering shout of 'don't mess with me, I bite' grrrl-rock. The surprise is Tom Brosseau, a last minute stand in and a recent signing to the Fat Cat record label. What, on the surface, seem to be simple acoustic songs of rural America, are supported by a voice so sumptuous and melodies so shifting, that a whole audience creep closer and engage their ears.
"Do you believe in spirits of music?" Ariel Pink asks whilst wandering around a dusty stage. It's hard to tell whether Ariel's aging taped songs are the sound of ghosts in pop music form or just the cluttered creations of Los Angeles confusion. You've heard the melodies before, but this time they have added hiss, added distance, clarity removed. To someone familiar with his songs, Ariel Pink at Venn was a beautifully disorganised performance of spooky lo-fi pop. Ariel wanders the stage, seemingly dressed in pyjamas, howling and humming as he tries to find the next backing track to put in the tape machine. The live bassist and keyboardist, dark sunglasses on, make thicker sounds to drown out the demons with. To those uninitiated with Ariel Pink, this could seem lo-fi mess rather than lo-fi pop, songs that could be better if only he'd come out from behind his copious fringe and record on something snazzier than an eight-track. Still, haunting seems to work best in an analogue mess.
The Chap, at first glance, could appear to be clinging onto the coat-tails of the English-eccentric musical revolution – the boy scout uniforms of British Sea Power are the apparel, the off kilter pop of the Mystery Jets is a sound touch-point. The Chap's three lads and a lady manage to combine the geography-teacher-with-cane crazed intensity with a touch of self-deprecating humour. Songs are introduced as being various shades of "abhorrent"; dance moves are performed in robotic synchronization; cellos are trashed in a very aristocratic form of rocking out. Perhaps The Chap are a little silly, but songs littered with tiny hooks here, there and everywhere are akin to a fiendishly fun tickle in the ribs.
French-Canadian duo Vialka are, despite attempts with various degrees of forcedness from others to beat them to it, the strangest band of the entire Venn extravaganza. Marylise Frecheville might just be the greatest female drummer of all time, while her partner in sonic crime Eric Boros coaxes endless shards of by turns electrifying, melodic, rhythmically spastic, and impossibly complex guitar. Marylise plays throughout, and there really is no totally polite way to put this, with one naked breast proudly protruding from a costume that's part Marie Antoinette and a good eyeful of insane asylum. When she jumps from the stage to Russian dance with the enthusiastic but clearly startled Malcolm X venue audience, it initially appears to be a one-off, only for further forays to confirm eccentric hyperactivity equal only to her titanic, hectic Lightning Bolt-in-a-dress stickswomanship. And we can't really exceed the accuracy of Vialka's own self-descriptive attempts: they are indeed a 'turbo folk gypsy punk micro-orchestra'.
DJ/Rupture doing world music – yeah, alright, quit it with the genre tag dissin' already, we know – mightn't be the easiest listen on paper, and the absence of the Moroccan third of his Nettle project through visa issues isn't, you'd think, about to help matters. Anybody who's caught Rupture's legendary mixes, which skip from Arabic rap to full on mash-up drum & bass and skittering electronica with seamlessly brilliant ease, will know different, however. British cellist Jen Jones's wonderfully discordant string abuse sits perfectly on Rupture's perpetually flawless beats, and although there's an undeniably downbeat feel when put in the light of his crowd-rocking solo sets, the tempo rises enough times via crisp bass thuds and rattling percussion to maintain interest levels. It might fit into the Rephlex Records-coined 'braindance' arena too snugly for any desperate for an all-out rave-up, but then the straight party-heads in the Malcolm X are probably in the wrong place anyway.
DJ Pinch and Bass Clef both bring varying approaches to the art of dubstep, or as it becomes in the Blue Mountain for one night only, the gentle art of pushing a sound-system and every set of ears within range to near-breaking point with monumental sublow frequencies. Pinch is a stalwart of the Bristol scene, one of the major players in making the southwest city second only to London in the dubstep hierarchy. He shows why too by vibrating fixtures and drinks from tables with a classy selection of wax that has an early evening crowd doing the standard slow-motion-running-in-tar dubstep dance. The chunky, bearded figure of Bass Clef makes Pinch seem but a distance memory though, with live trombone and cowbell ringing out above dangerously potent bass wobbles. His set is admittedly lengthy, but with insistent rhythms and a real sense of improvisation plus click/play safety net eschewing, that matters little.
The double-headed successive shitnoisefest of V/Vm and the Assdroids at The Croft proves to be perfectly apt, the former spinning rotten records from the truly worst archives of pop culture, the latter attempting to brawl onstage and making a magnificently shambolic racket in between. The comic highlight of which is V/Vm's pig-masked leader announcing his vinyl collection tonight is due to his last disc jockey engagement at a wedding, then spins what seems like 20 minutes of 'Electric Dreams' only to whip the record off, declaring "I wasn't really feelin' that" in broad Stockport tones. Several hours later, having scooted into the frankly cunt-filled Casablanca and waited for an hour plus for Cobra Killer not to appear – the former Digital Hardcore noise Amazonians-turned-prima donnas apparently decided the wallpaper wasn't to their liking, or something – the last drops of excitable energy are sapped. Which leaves a quick dash back to Blue Mountain and a few bars of ace-but-ear-destroying dubstep dude Kode 9 before collapsing in a music-overloaded heap.
Friday photos by Louis R-D, Saturday photos by Kane Rich
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Heriot-Watt University was founded in 1821 as the Edinburgh School of Arts (the world's first Mechanics Institute), a college for working people. It became a university in 1966, and has close links with industry, commerce and the professions.
Heriot-Watt University has five campuses: three in the UK – Edinburgh, the Scottish Borders, where textile courses are taught, and Orkney – and campuses in Dubai and Malaysia.
Courses and Specialisms
Around 400 course are taught through five academic schools and one graduate school:
The university has over 11,500 students on its UK campus ranked 2nd in the UK in QS Best Student Cities. Over 29,000 students studying with us at our campuses and online through distance learning .One third of our students are from outside the UK, making Heriot-Watt one of the most internationally diversified of any UK university.
According to HESA, 94.6% of students went into employment or further study within six months after graduating in 2016/17.
Facilities and Services
The main campus is set in the Edinburgh suburb of Riccarton. The National Performance Centre for Sports (NPCS), a joint venture in conjunction with the City of Edinburgh Council, is located here. Oriam The £33 million state-of-the-art facility has indoor and outdoor football pitches, rugby pitches, sports hall, climbing wall, squash courts, fitness suite and excellent facilities for sports science and medicine students.
The Scottish Borders Campus in Galashiels specialises in textiles, fashion and design. Courses are offered in conjunction with Glasgow Clyde College and there is also a partnership with Borders College delivering higher and further education, and sharing new campus facilities.
The Orkney Campus in Stromness is the International Centre for Island Technology (ICIT) and offers postgraduate courses in renewable energy and marine resources.
The Dubai Campus is a recently purpose built campus approximately 25 minutes outside the centre of Dubai. It offers excellent facilities including a well equipped library, IT and audio-visual facilities, a 700-seat auditorium and student apartments situated close to shops and local amenities.
The Malaysian Campus is the country's first 'green campus' and offers degrees in science, engineering and business. The choice of courses will continue to grow. Situated in the stunning lakeside city of Putrajaya, it has state-of-the-art teaching and learning facilities and express links to Kuala Lumpur.
Heriot Watt is 35th in the UK and 6th in Scotland.
Heriot-Watt University is ranked 3rd in the UK for Building, 9th for Town and Country Planning and 10th for Maths (Complete University Guide League Table 2020).
Heriot-Watt is ranked 37th in the world, 13th in the UK and 3rd in Scotland for its international outlook, a score based on the percentage of the university's international staff, the level of international co-authorship of academic papers and the percentage of international students studying with the University (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2019).
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Just a couple days ago we got word from producer Brian Grazer that $45-50 million had been cut from the budget for the adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower to make it more appealing to studios. While Grazer and director Ron Howard are still looking for a place to set up the film portion of the adaptation, we can't forget that the ambitious project also calls for a couple seasons of television between three planned films. Thankfully, it doesn't sound like that side of the deal has been hard to set up as Grazer recently spoke with MTV and said, "We're going to do [The Dark Tower] with HBO. We'll do the TV with HBO, and we'll do the movie with… to be determined. We'll do it right." Seems like the best home for material like this, that way there aren't any restrictions as to the violence, language, etc. No details as were offered as to just how long each season will be or anything like that, but it sounds like we might get some solid information sooner than later so stay tuned.
If you're unfamiliar with The Dark Tower, hit the jump for a synopsis.
Here's the synopsis for The Dark Tower:
In the story, Roland Deschain is the last living member of a knightly order known as gunslingers and the last of the line of "Arthur Eld", his world's analogue of King Arthur. The world he lives in is quite different from our own, yet it bears striking similarities to it. Politically organized along the lines of a feudal society, it shares technological and social characteristics with the American Old West but is also magical. While the magical aspects are largely gone from Mid-World, some vestiges of them remain, along with the relics of a highly advanced, but long vanished, society.
Roland's quest is to find the Dark Tower, a fabled building said to be the nexus of all universes. Roland's world is said to have "moved on", and indeed it appears to be coming apart at the seams as mighty nations have been torn apart by war, entire cities and regions vanish without a trace and time does not flow in an orderly fashion. Even the Sun sometimes rises in the north and sets in the east. As the series opens, Roland's motives, goals and age are unclear, though later installments shed light on these mysteries. [Wikipedia]


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Reboot your brain and use some handy online tools instead, and be the speaker who doesn't talk specifically about that special couple, organization or Where We Stand Today. Instead, focus on the numbers--20, 35, 70, 150 years in the anniversary, or the actual date, month or day--and find out what else was happening then. Make that the focus of your remarks. For example, if you were honoring these types of anniversaries today, you could:
- Connect the anniversary date to something special on the same day in history, and let it suggest a theme: "Bob and Jeannette were married 20 years ago, on June 16, 1990. Back in 1884 on the very same day, the first roller coaster in America opened. Clearly, if you want to start an exciting ride, June 16 is the date to do it. Here's to another 20 years of excitement!" Check out History Channel's "This day in history" site for more ideas.
- Use the year and your topical theme: Let's say your company or organization or local chapter got going in 1960 and is having its 40th anniversary this year. Dial up Wikipedia, enter "1960" in the search and get to "events of 1960." Then cherry-pick events based on your company's topics--for example, science and technology. You might include the start of the CERN particle accelerator in Geneva, the launch of the first U.S. weather satellite, a nuclear submarine completing the first underwater circumnavigation of the globe. (It'll work fine if you don't limit yourself to things strictly in your group or company history, but include related events.) You could do the same with movies, sports, politics, world affairs, war, music and more.
- Sprinkle in unrelated-to-your-topic events, too: Sure, you have a roomful of aficionados. Even they might want to know (in addition to the serious fare) that the nonprofit was founded in the same year that Twiggy burst on the modeling scene or the era when ice cream cones became a firm trend. Don't forget that for every deep fan of your topic, there's a spouse/cousin/aunt/volunteer who's not focused on that, but can appreciate a wider lens on the anniversary.
- Generate some laughs and a sense of shared experiences. Chase's Calendar of Events, a reference staple, offers a free online today-in-history timeline. With the June 16, 1960 focus, above, you might use this, as written on its website: "50 years ago, in 1960, the thriller Psycho premiered and millions of filmgoers began avoiding the shower." Get the full complement of Chase's treasure trove (book and/or CD) and find out whether your anniversary event falls during National Hot Dog Week or the anniversary of the pilgrims landing on Plymouth Rock.
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A day after a key Senate Democrat unveiled an $856 billion plan to overhaul the nation's health care system, President Obama spoke to college students at the University of Maryland about the need for reform.
"When you're young, I know this isn't always an issue you have at the top of your mind," Obama told the cheering students. "You think you are invincible."
Although Obama did not expressly endorse the bill introduced by Max Baucus, D-Mt., he praised Baucus' leadership and said lawmakers are closer than ever to reaching an agreement.
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"It's been nearly a century since Teddy Roosevelt first called for health care reform," he said. "I may not be the first president to take up health reform, but I intend to be the last, with your help."
Noting that University of Maryland only recently began requiring all students to have coverage, Obama told an enthusiastic audience that he remembers what it is like to be young.
But, he said, an illness can leave uninsured young people buried in debt. "Think about adding on top of the debt you already have for college another $10,000, $20,000, $30,000 or even $50,000."
Baucus on Wednesday brought out the much-awaited Finance Committee version of an American health-system remake — a landmark 10-year measure that starts a rough ride through Congress without visible Republican backing.
The bill by would make major changes to the nation's $2.5 trillion health care system, including requiring most people to purchase insurance coverage or pay a fine and prohibiting insurance companies from charging more to people with more serious health problems.
The Baucus bill does not include the new government-run insurance plan — or option — that Obama has backed, though in other ways, including its overall cost and payment mechanisms, the bill tracks closely with the priorities Obama laid out in his speech to Congress last week.
Still,, it is not just Republicans who are likely to oppose it. Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean salled the bill an "outrage" and a "giveaway" to insurance companies.
"This is the worst piece of health care legislation I have seen in 30 years," thundered Dean, a physician and former governor of Vermont.
The bill would be paid for with Medicare cuts and new fees on insurers, as well as a tax on the most expensive health insurance plans. It would impose fines on people for not having coverage, although the poor would be exempt from the fines.
Get more: MSNBC