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Columbia hosts third annual Cinco de Mayo Street Fest this weekend
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Precious Cargo Annual Collection: Collins & Lacy, P.C. Calls on Community to Help Donate Items for Foster Children
May is National Foster Care Month, and to promote awareness, Collins & Lacy, P.C. is again teaming up with the South Carolina Youth...
Midlands Gives breaks record with more than $1.75 million in donations
Breaking its all-time record, the fifth year of Midlands Gives has raised an estimated total of $1,756,332 million dollars via 14,665 individual...
"#GetYourGiveOn with The Soul of Philanthropy" Free Event for All Ages, April 29 at Richland Library Main
A free event for all ages, "#GetYourGiveOn with The Soul of Philanthropy" will be held on April 29, 2018 from 3 p.m....
Youth Led Rally for Special Olympics
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Central Carolina Community Foundation grants $335,770 to 11 Midlands Charities to Launch Innovative Projects
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It's long been known that sunlight plays an important role in regulating our internal body clock.
Just think how much easier it is to get out of bed on a bright sunny day compared to a grey, rainy morning. But now scientists have shown that being exposed to sunlight throughout your working day can have a surprisingly large role in determining whether or not you're headed for sleepless nights.
A study published in the Journal of Sleep titled "Impact of Workplace Daylight Exposure on Sleep, Physical Activity, and Quality of Life" compared workers who had access to natural daylight and those in windowless offices.
The study concluded that there was a "strong association between workplace daylight exposure and office workers' sleep quality, activity patterns and quality of life".
Compared to the group with no windows, day-shift workers with windows slept on average 47 minutes longer per night. "We were surprised that the quality and length of sleep differences were that large," said Dr. Mohamed Boubekri, one of the co-authors of the study and a professor of architecture at Illinois University.
Light is the most important external cue for our circadian rhythms, the internal clock that dictates our sleep wake-cycle.
This 'master clock' is located in a bundle of nerve cells in the brain known as the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). Scientists have shown that destroying this part of the brains results in a complete absence of a sleep-wake cycle.
People with disrupted circadian rhythms are prone to sleep disorders whose side effects can include obesity, diabetes and depression.


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Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
Actors: Mickey Rourke, Don Johnson, Chelsea Field, Daniel Baldwin, Giancarlo Esposito
Genres: Action & Adventure, Westerns, Drama, Mystery & Suspense
"Hotly staged bike chases" (Variety), state-of-the-art weaponry and "excellent explosions" (Hollywood Drama-Logue) form a deadly combination in this "lively" (Los Angeles Times) action film about a couple of modern-day, mo... more »torcycle-ridin' Robin Hoods. Starring Mickey Rourke (Get Carter), Don Johnson (Tin Cup) and Vanessa L. Williams (Shaft), Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man contains thrills and excitement that never let upwith surprise twists at every turn! In the lawless world of the future, drifters Harley Davidson (Rourke) and The Marlboro Man (Johnson) help an old friend save his bar by robbing the very bank trying to takeover his property. But this is no ordinary bank and the armored car they roll is filled not with moneybut drugs! Now Harley and Marlboro become the objects of a ruthless manhunt by the corrupt bank chief's deadly and unstoppable henchmen. « less
Creators: David Eggby, Corky Ehlers, Don Michael Paul, Donald L. West, Jere Henshaw, Missy Alpern
Sub-Genres: Crime, Westerns, Drama, Mystery & Suspense
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Format: DVD - Color,Widescreen,Anamorphic - Closed-captioned
Screens: Color,Widescreen,Anamorphic
MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Languages: English, French, Spanish
Subtitles: Spanish, French
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Guns are meant to be shot, Harley
Steven Hellerstedt | 04/10/2005
"Bon Jovi sings over the opening credits. Heavy on the heavy metal, chopper hogs and chrome fetishes. Loud motorcycles and pole-dancing strip clubs. Even the convenience store clerk is drop dead gorgeous. Loud guns, bar fights, big explosions and high speed chases.
HARLEY DAVIDSON AND THE MARLBORO MAN is one of those testosterone loaded guy flicks that more or less defies criticism. Set in the near future - 1996 (the movie was released in 1991) - Mickey Rourke plays Harley Davidson and Don Johnson plays Marlboro Man, a pair of hard-living buddies who find themselves in possession of $2.5 million worth of `crystal dream,' a street drug that its owner, sleazy banker Tom Sizemore, will go to great lengths to get back. He sends heavily-armed and kevlar armored Daniel Baldwin and his gang of identically clad goons to retrieve the stuff.
Okay, it ain't Citizen Kane, but if you like watching stuff blowing up, guys getting into a lot of fights and women dressed in tight-and-clingy (and fading into the deep background after breakfast) HARLEY DAVIDSON & THE MARLBORO MAN is recommended.
Best film i ever watch in television
jumar sudiyana | Jakarta, Indonesia | 05/21/2003
"i knew this film from television broadcast in jakarta indonesia, i interest to know about the film because since children i like cow boy for example bonanza. And so i'm very glad now for dvd edition.i want to know many cow boy film maybe you can help me
best regard from indonesia"
One of Those Must Haves...
Robert Hill | Northern Virginia | 12/31/2005
"First, I actually saw this movie at the theater. Anyone else out there? I loved it then, and I love it now.
I'm a big fan of Mickey Rourke, and this is my favorite role of his (a close second is SIN CITY). Is there one guy out there that wouldn't love to trade places on that great bike of his for at least an hour? Too cool; he was the only pick to make that role as believable as the script could carry.
Next is Don Johnson. I personally think the guy is a shmuck, but he's great in this role. As a buddy movie, he was the perfect compliment to Rourke. And he provides some of the best lines of the film.
The supporting characters are also great, with Tom Sizemore (who makes great military and home porn flicks, and beats his girlfriends), Big John Studd (of pro wrestling fame), Daniel Baldwin (before he got fat), Tia Carrera (before WAYNE'S WORLD), and of course a gorgeous Vanessa Williams (the real hottie of this movie).
The script and acting overall may be suspect (especially that little twerp Giancarlo Esposito), but who cares...it's lots of violence, hotties, and action.
Bottomline is that this is one of the best movies for guys that like movies, and a must-have for the film collection."
'Modern Classic' and the Hard Road of Life
VideoPhile | Central Coast, California United States | 06/04/2001
"This is a much deeper more evolved movie than most realize at first glance. On the surface, its a simple action adventure movie about the little guy vs. the BIG corporation. It has enough action in it to satisfy the action movie buff many times over with everything from exploding motorcycles to jumping off of rooftops. On a more subtle level, character development is strong and quick. The internal demons that haunt Harley Davidson (Mickey Rourke) and the Marlboro Man (Don Johnson) are very real bringing these characters to life. Their moral dilemmas and loyalty to themselves, each other and their friends are believable. The movie does take the 'action' movie formula: Good Guys versus Bad Guys but includes an element often not seen in 'classic action' movies where the good guys actually have flaws. This movie is more 'classical' in that respect where the villian is the villian, but the good guy isn't perfect. For a comparative type movie, 'The Replacement Killers' is a good example: Action Movie where the 'good guys' aren't necessarily all that good but 'Do the Right' thing. Another way to view it would be 'Robin Hood' meets the 21st Century. This is must have 'Classic' of eighties film making. Amazingly deep dialog for an 'action' movie. It includes excellent cameo performances by Chelsea Field, Vanessa Williams, and Tia Carrera. The last three lines of the movie are classic in themselves: Harley: 'Hey, where you headed?', Girl: 'Nowhere Special.', Harley: 'Get on, I'll take you there'."
I love this movie
jumar sudiyana | 05/10/2002
"As cheesy as it is, and totally testosterone driven, I can never get tired of watching it. It's defiantly entertaining and if you need to kick back with a beer after work and forget about things you can just pop this ... in and its instant gratification. I love the performances in it and the custom bike mickey rode in this speaks for itself.."

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Q: Meta Query querrying several post types based on ACF fields is broken after update to WP 4.1 I was using the following arguments for a WP_Query for months:
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    'posts_per_page' => -1,
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There are four different post types querried (posttype1, posttype2, posttype3, posttype4). The meta_query querries ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) fields (field2, field4) as well as ACF subfields (field1_0_subfield, field3_0_subfield) containing dates each. So the entries in the four post types are sorted by date ascending  chronologically. With the update to Wordpress 4.1 the query stopped working and i have no idea about the reason.

A: The problem is with the arg 'meta_key' => 'meta_value' - meta_key isn't needed if you have a meta_query arg (despite what the codex appears to say) and its value here doesn't make sense anyway - so just remove it.
However it does point out a behavioural change in 4.1 as before the meta_key was ORed with the meta_query keys (hence your query worked as the meta_key = 'meta_value' clause was basically a no-op) but now it's ANDed and so fails. WP 4.0.1:
wp_postmeta.meta_key = 'meta_value' OR wp_postmeta.meta_key = 'field1_0_subfield' OR wp_postmeta.meta_key = 'field2' ...

WP 4.1 (mt1 being an alias of wp_postmeta):
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(PS an easy way to see what SQL is being produced by a query is to look at $query->request.)

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Scrapbooking is a wonderful way to preserve your cherished memories. For many people their pets are an important part of the family, so it is just natural to want to capture those special times shared with a beloved pet. You can use your favorite scrapbooking tools to make unique pages that you can enjoy for years to come. As always, make sure the scrapbooking materials you use are acid and lignin free. You'll need the typical scrapbooking supplies such as an album, cut-outs, stickers, letter rub-ons, and any other creative embellishments you desire. Choose things related to your pet such as dog breed stickers or cat themed papers.
Creating scrapbook pages for your pets is also a great way to get the kids involved. To get started, you'll need to have some good photos of your pet. Try taking pictures from a variety of different angles and include your pet with different members of the family. If your dog has a favorite toy, include some special pictures of that as well. Do you celebrate your pet's birthday? Then by all means include some "birthday" photos in the scrapbook.
My children even celebrate the birthdays of our fish! Here are some fun theme ideas for creating your pet's scrapbook. Focus on "the firsts". If you are fortunate enough to get your pet while he or she is still a baby, then create a scrapbook album around the "firsts". Even if you adopted your pet when it was older you can still create some great "first" scrapbook pages. Create a scrapbook page or album around your pet's first bath, coming home, first holidays, first visit to the park, first car ride, etc. Another great scrapbook theme is "A Day In The Life of " which would include pages about your pet's morning routines, nap time, meal time, play time and favorite toys, and outdoor time. Trace your pet's paw print and include that in the pages too! A theme around "pet favorites" is also a fun idea. Take photos and create pages around your pet's favorite activities. For a cat you might include pages on favorite toys and favorite nap places. For a dog, choose photos of favorite outdoor play or playtime with favorite toys.
Whatever kind of pet you have, you can enjoy creating special scrapbook pages that you will enjoy for years to come!.


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Monday Night Live Music Glasgow
On Monday night, HBO concluded its two-part broadcast of "Leaving. he synthesized the sounds and attitudes of soul and pop — and of black and white — to create a new American music that even now,
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On big nights there's no place busier or better and the Barony has played host to some incredible. Whether you go for the Big Monday Quiz, some incredible live music, table tennis or our. Strath Laughs Glasgow Comedy Festival Special.
Gospel Music Television Channel Earth Shoes Chicago Blues Happy birthday to my angel on earth." Kylie's big sister Kim Kardashian has also sent well wishes to baby Stormi with an adorable snap. Uploading a shot of Stormi with cousin Chicago. like, baby. www.littlelandershistoricalsociety.org Party for Global Citizens: We Are From the Earth presents an evening of art, social awareness
7:30 p.m. Bingo The St. John's Retired Citizens Association's bingo is held every Monday night at 10 Bennett Ave. Contact Andrew Walsh at 726-3935 for more information. Live Music 12:30 p.m. Trad.
JASPER CARROTT featuring the BEV BEVAN BAND. Stand Up & Rock is back….The 2019 tour will see the legendary Jasper Carrott back with a new stand up show alongside his musical compatriots, the Bev Bevan Band that have been 'rockin' audiences all over the world.
Lubbockites eagerly lined up to see Santa Land open for the 62nd year Monday night at Mackenzie Park and were not disappointed when the lights came on. At least 150 residents gathered to see the.
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Both artists also performed live on the. of women in country music and on-air personality Vicki Pepper even has her own segment dedicated to women in the genre dubbed the All-Girl Power Hour, which.
Classic Grand Live Music Venue. Triple G Music Presents. Napoleon. More Info. Ticket Outlets. Tickets Scotland Glasgow 237 Argyle Street Glasgow G2 8DL.
Greetings live music fans. and Mister Burns for a night that is sure to get the dance floor moving up on the Mountain Road. Tickets for that one are $8 in advance and $12 day of show. And the Nail.
Discover the best events, bars, nightclubs, live music venues and pubs that Glasgow has to offer.
"Blue Monday" is a song by the British rock band New Order. It was released as a 12-inch single on 7 March 1983 through Factory Records and later as a 7-inch single through Tonpress in 1985. It appeared on certain cassette and CD versions of the band's second studio album, Power, Corruption & Lies (1983). "Blue Monday" is a synth-pop and alternative dance song that drew inspirations from many.
LIVE MUSIC. Monday. 11am – 8pm. Tuesday – Thursday. 11am – 11pm. Friday – Saturday. the past 30 years or so, playing at night clubs and restaurants in the Denver Metro area, Tyler Paul Glasgow Band – formerly of the band 'PLACES'.
The gigs come hot on the heels of her sold out Brixton Academy gig on Monday night (July 24). And speaking of which. Lana Del Rey singing #LOVE live at O2 Academy Brixton in London, UK on July 24,
Thursday 29th March 2018: A tragic tale of searing passion and memorable music, La Traviata is Verdi's outstanding interpretation of one of the most popular love stories of.
Excited to announce a fundraiser for the Tommy Brull Foundation taking place this Monday, March 11 on Long Island. Here are the details and thanks to Martin Brull for inviting us to participate:
Bands. Dundee's favourite late-night venue is open seven days a week, serving up an impressive range of craft beers. Wednesday – Saturday 12pm-2.30am.
Broadcast primetime live + same-day ratings for Monday, October 8, 2018 Note. Elsewhere, the CW's broadcast of the second night of the "iHeart Radio Music Festival" scored a 0.2 with 610,000.
Glasgow Live Music is a group for music fans looking to meetup with other music fans at gigs and concerts in Glasgow and beyond. Feel free to suggest a.
What's clubbing in student clubs on a Monday night? On about the sub club/ Flat 0/1 scene. We're going The Monday before college and I want.
news Job opportunity – GLASGOW CANAL CO–OP PROJECT MANAGER. The Glasgow Canal Co–op is hiring a Project Manager! The Glasgow Canal Coop was established in Feb 2018 as a collaborative initiative to enhance the canal corridor between Port Dundas and Firhill in north Glasgow.
Address: 131 Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8TT. Tel: 0141 339. Live Sports. We hold regular entertainment and have a Quiz every Monday Night. We are a very.
A vibrant cocktail bar and party venue in Glasgow. Bringing you incredible drinks, delicious food and unforgettable party nights, 7 days a week. Music Policy.
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Gujrati Folk Music The free-spirited song is generating enthusiasm among Bollywood singers too. We have music sensation Himesh Reshammiya and Gujarati folk singer Arvind Vegda singing the song with utmost excitement. سلام Salaam (Hello) and Welcome to our Guide to Pakistani Culture, Customs & Etiquette. The word 'Pakistan' is derived from the word 'Pak' – a Persian word
Monday night at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park you have the rare treat of seeing a silent film as it was meant to be seen — with live music. Organist Steven Ball takes the stage for a.
Riding Room is a cabaret bar situated in Merchant City, Glasgow. cabaret bar, hosts seven nights of on-stage activity every week (a mix of live. of the hat to old -fashioned socialising mixed with riotous entertainment of all shapes and sizes.
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Oct 23, 2018 · LOS ANGELES – Rapper Nicki Minaj is being sued for sampling a Tracy Chapman song without permission. Chapman filed a copyright infringement lawsuit Monday.
Alea offers a range of events every month, from live music to poker games & themed parties!. I Love the 90s – Tribute Night. Every Friday and Saturday night.
A couple of popular performers in the Central Maine area have teamed up once more to produce some pleasing vocal harmonies as Katie Daggett and Ed DesJardins are set to appear in Hallowell this coming.
Finally, the wait is over. Released today via Sony Music, the much-anticipated Live At Pompeii album is available on 2-CD, Blu-ray, 2-DVD, 4-LP, deluxe Blu-ray box, and download. For more information, please click here. The Blu-ray and DVDs include highlights from the concert performances of both of David's Pompeii shows in July 2016, filmed in 4K by director Gavin Elder.
It was a Monday night and we were not blind drunk but he said it was a cultural. Suddenly over the speakers came the soaring choral music of Carmina Burana and a voice that sounded like God, or the.
Mark Nelson: Brexit Wounds. Thursday 14th March 2019. As we leave the EU, the award-winning stand-up equally renowned for his brilliantly dark material, appearances on Radio and TV as for his viral creation "News at 3" (180+ million views!) offers up his unique view on the state of the world.
Hulk Hogan returned to Monday Night RAW to honor the late, great "Mean" Gene Okerlund. The tribute began with a 10-bell salute before Hogan's music hits. WWE Hall of Famer has appeared in front of.
Located in Merchant City, Committee Room 9 is a traditional Glasgow pub with large. complimenting live sport on our many big screens and live music on the bar stage, plus DJs spinning feel-good tracks every Friday and Saturday from 8pm to 1am. Please check our Facebook page for confirmation of nights and events,
Speakeasy Glasgow is a place where anything goes and everyone is. private booths to book, live entertainment and even the odd spot of sport. We're also the proud home of the legendary Trophy Room, a Saturday night institution bringing.
Feb 28, 2019. The taproom of Innis & Gunn in Glasgow. Over 50 craft beers, tank fresh lager, and a strong cocktail and spirit selection. Good food served daily.
All the proceeds from an upcoming Glasgow club night are to go towards a mental health charity. This Wednesday's Eyeangle Records x Attention//Please: Choose Life gig, which takes place at La Cheetah.
The kickoff event of Super Bowl week has transformed from a Tuesday morning, media-only event into a Monday night production complete with team entrances and live music. It's now televised in prime.
Missoula is a modern, stylish and popular bar, offering good times, sophistication and great music. By day, we offer a value-for-money food menu, combining freshly made stone-baked pizzas, fabulous burgers and tempting desserts.
Her modelling saw her live in many countries, and she was based in Paris and New York for five years each. She appeared in two Duran Duran videos and even stripped nude for a music video by. the.
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Join us on Tuesday 19th July for a night of live acoustic music in the bar from 9pm. A monthly open mic on the 3rd Thursday of every calendar month, where we.
The San Diego based band's album Prismism indulges in a long simmering fascination with electronic sounds, keyboards and drum machines.
**Fri 14 Dec 18** ON THIS DAY IN QUEEN HISTORY – 14 DECEMBER Direct link. In 1973 – Queen played Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK (2 shows) with Mott The Hoople – Brian May's parents were in.
Since 1994 The Glee Club have been bringing the very best comedy, music and special. Our experienced team have brought an unparalleled combination of comedians, music acts and live entertainers to. coming up at a club near you and join us soon for a great night of entertainment. Monday to Friday: 9am – 7pm
Bob Weir & Wolf Bros will play a pair of shows at the intimate confines of the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City on Monday night. Phish bassist Mike Gordon. Ann & Nancy Wilson and Robert Plant.
Coheed and Cambria played the grand opening of Live Nation's latest Fillmore venue in New Orleans Monday night (Feb. 18. bands bypass this market because there isn't a great live music venue to.
The Zap was a Nightclub in Brighton, England that became famous in the late 1980s and early. Ian Smith was the resident MC and in the new venue the Club started to develop a music policy that won acclaim for its live music and its place at the. The following year, Chris Coco brought his Saturday nights to an end with a.
Harry posted a shot of the group backstage on social media, writing: "Glasgow, Live On Tour." Harry will wrap the European leg of his world tour in Dublin, Ireland on Monday night (16Apr17), before.
After her sell-out show at London's Brixton Academy on Monday night (July 24), the singer will return to the UK in August for shows in Liverpool and Glasgow. She will play Liverpool's Echo Arena on.
Jun 27, 2015. GLASGOW is one of the top spots in Scotland to hear traditional. The Ben Nevis is host to sessions on Wednesday and Thursday nights.


Human nature is as old as mankind itself. Throughout history, despite differing locations, differing culture, differing perspective, human nature is unchanged. It is forever in our minds and in our souls. The basic emotions of every human being is implanted in our minds at birth, and develops and grows along with our bodies. But due to varied restrictions, such as cultural laws, morality, and/or human limitations, some emotions cannot be acted out upon. The next step is to seek it through others. Through them we may be able to experience fear, or happiness, or sadness, or tragedy. This idea caught on by the ancient Greek "tragedians" Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Through their plays, they were able to provoke different emotions in their audience, tragedy in particular. Being able to watch human suffering, paradoxically, gives the audience pleasure. Sophocles was a master of this. With the usage of dramatic structure in his plays Sophocles insured his fame and popularity for thousands of centuries. One tragedy in particular, Oedipus Rex, is a prime example of this step-by-step process.
technique where a story or narrative begins in the middle instead of where the main events first start taking place. In Oedipus Rex, this occurs during the prologue where Oedipus address the people of Thebes, "... why have you strewn yourself before these altars in Supplication, with your boughs and garlands?..." (1060-1061). This fills the audience in on what has happened and what is to come. The next part is the Protasis, or, the initial introduction to the play. This is when the Priest explains and introduces the settings and some of what's going on, to both Oedipus and the audience. "Your own eyes must tell you: Thebes is tossed on a murdering sea and can not lift her from the death surge..." (1061- 1062).


Parent's can book their children onto learn to ride your bike session with expert tutor Ray Hughes and grab a partner to have a go on a tandem. With the Queen's birthday celebrations taking place, children can make a crown or follow one of the royal trails designed to encourage children to get outdoors and explore the Onny Meadows. Take-away food, drinks and ice-creams on sale all day.
The event is part-sponsored by local company Britpart, a Craven Arms company employing over 200 members of staff; Britpart is a leading independent wholesaler of parts and accessories for Land Rover vehicles. Tony Overs, Finance Director at Britpart said 'As a local company, Britpart is very pleased to be able to help sponsor the Family Fun Day at Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre, we hope it's a fun day for everyone attending'.
To see the full programme of activities visit the website: www.shropshirehillsdiscoverycentre.co.uk or call 01588 676060.


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NIRO FAMILY DOES THE TRIPLE IN DIESEL CAR & ECO CAR TOP 50
•Each member of the Niro family picked up an award in the Diesel Car & Eco Car Top 50
•Best Medium Electric Car, Best Plug-in Hybrid and Best Hybrid awards won
•Kia has six models in the Top 50 list
The versatile Niro family has won three awards in the Diesel Car & Eco Car Top 50, taking home Best Hybrid, Best Plug-in Hybrid and Best Medium Electric Car. It also came in at position 23 on the list of the Top 50 new cars.
The Niro is available with three alternative fuel powertrains; hybrid, plug-in hybrid or fully electric. The first model of the Niro family, the Niro HEV is capable of fuel economy of up to 58.9mpg. With the ability of travelling up to 36 miles on battery power alone, the Niro PHEV delivers low-cost, high-efficiency motoring in a stylish crossover package. The award winning fully electric e-Niro now comes in a three grade line-up offers up to 282 miles and three-phase charging.
Ian Robertson, DieselCar & EcoCar Editor commented on the Niro's wins: "For anyone who thinks alternative fuel cars like the Prius and Leaf look too quirky, the Niro makes a great alternative thanks to its on-trend SUV styling. Hidden under its bodywork are hybrid, plug-in hybrid or all-electric powertrains, and each of them are best of the breed. A mid-life update earlier this year brought modest tweaks to the exterior, together with a significant uplift in quality inside the cabin. We love the Niro for its roominess, its affordability and high equipment levels, not to mention the comprehensive seven-year warranty."
Elsewhere on the list, the popular Sportage placed at number 14 and was Kia's highest ranking model in the Top 50. The Sportage was praised for its equipment, pricing and engines. The Ceed was at number 22 for its stylish design, long list of standard kit and low running costs, while the ProCeed was applauded for it striking design and boot capacity, coming in at number 32.
Paul Philpott, President and CEO of Kia Motors UK) Ltd. commented: "Having such a diverse product range to suit all our customer needs is and asset we and our dealer network partners thoroughly enjoy. It's particularly humbling when our products are recognised by high profile UK awards and seeing so many of our products ranked highly in the Diesel Car and Eco Car Top 50 again in 2020 is a true testament to the popularity and quality of our vehicles."


As you will all be aware, the Abingdon Motorsport Car-Nival weekend is rapidly approaching.
Entry levels for both the Sprint and the Rally are looking good, with a good cross-section of cars on the list. All we need now, are marshals to help out over the course of the weekend to help keep your fellow Club members safe during the events. If you can help out on either, or both, days please let the Chief Marshal, Dave Whyman know what you can do to help. He can be reached at davewhyman@hotmail.com or 07831 671308.
As usual, there are spaces for camping available with the Stowford House barbecue producing food on both the Saturday and Sunday evenings as well as the bar and comedians to keep you entertained on the Saturday evening.
Please come along and help us raise an even larger sum of money for the guys at Stowford House and the Army Benevolant Fund.
As my car wasn't ready to enter I'm hoping to come along to spectate. Is this possible?
Thanks to everyone who made the event happen today - enjoyed it.
Great day, nice to see the other side of the event from the marshals post. Well done to all that drove so well in the morning on the Abingdon course in the torential rain.
Woodcote,just love that kerb !


Events! What's Working, What's Not and What's Next!
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Come to the Whitley Lecture on April 11, 2019 at the Park Avenue Club in Florham Park to learn how to make your next event fun and exciting for your guests ( . . . and possibly you!), as well as more profitable for your organization.
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Come learn from our experts in event planning, implementation, and technology, as well as your colleagues who have successfully taken their events to new heights. You'll come away with new ideas to implement and a new-found enthusiasm for the possibilities of special events.


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// This file implements conversion function between RuntimeFallback and
// KernelFallback.

#include "tensorflow/core/runtime_fallback/conversion/conversion.h"

#include "tensorflow/core/framework/types.pb.h"
#include "tensorflow/core/runtime_fallback/kernel/kernel_fallback_tensor.h"
#include "tensorflow/core/runtime_fallback/kernel/tensor_util.h"
#include "tensorflow/core/runtime_fallback/runtime/runtime_fallback_tensor.h"
#include "tensorflow/core/tfrt/utils/error_util.h"
#include "tfrt/host_context/async_value_ref.h"  // from @tf_runtime
#include "tfrt/host_context/device.h"  // from @tf_runtime
#include "tfrt/tensor/conversion_registry.h"  // from @tf_runtime
#include "tfrt/tensor/conversion_utils.h"  // from @tf_runtime

namespace tensorflow {
namespace tfd {

static RuntimeFallbackTensor ConvertKernelFallbackToRuntimeFallbackTensor(
    const KernelFallbackTensor &tensor, const tfrt::Device &src,
    const tfrt::Device &dst, const tfrt::ExecutionContext &exec_ctx) {
  assert(&src == &dst);
  auto optional_eager_resource =
      exec_ctx.resource_context()
          ->GetResource<tensorflow::tfd::EagerContextResource>(
              tensorflow::tfd::kEagerContextResourceName);
  assert(optional_eager_resource.has_value());
  auto expected_eager_context =
      optional_eager_resource.value()->GetTFEagerContext();
  assert(expected_eager_context);
  Device *d;
  Status s =
      expected_eager_context.get()->FindDeviceFromName(src.name().data(), &d);
  assert(s.ok());
  Tensor t(*tensor.GetTensor());
  OwnedTensorHandle tensor_handle{tensorflow::TensorHandle::CreateLocalHandle(
      std::move(t),
      /*d=*/t.dtype() == DT_RESOURCE ? expected_eager_context.get()->HostCPU()
                                     : d,
      /*op_device=*/d,
      /*resource_device=*/t.dtype() == DT_RESOURCE ? d : nullptr,
      expected_eager_context.get())};
  return RuntimeFallbackTensor(tensor.shape(), tensor.dtype(),
                               std::move(tensor_handle));
}

static tfrt::AsyncValueRef<KernelFallbackTensor>
ConvertRuntimeFallbackToKernelFallbackTensor(
    const RuntimeFallbackTensor &tensor, const tfrt::Device &src,
    const tfrt::Device &dst, const tfrt::ExecutionContext &exec_ctx) {
  const tensorflow::Tensor *tf_tensor;
  Status s = tensor.GetTensorHandle()->Tensor(&tf_tensor);
  if (!s.ok()) {
    return tfrt::MakeErrorAsyncValueRef(s.error_message());
  }
  auto src_knfb_tensor =
      KernelFallbackTensor(tensor.shape(), tensor.dtype(), *tf_tensor);
  return TransferTensorToDevice(exec_ctx, src_knfb_tensor, src, dst);
}

void RegisterRuntimeFallbackTensorToKernelFallbackConversionFn(
    tfrt::TensorConversionFnRegistry *registry) {
  registry->AddTensorConversionFn(
      TFRT_CONVERSION(ConvertKernelFallbackToRuntimeFallbackTensor));
  registry->AddTensorConversionFn(
      TFRT_CONVERSION(ConvertRuntimeFallbackToKernelFallbackTensor));
}

}  // namespace tfd
}  // namespace tensorflow

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Meanwhile lets just say that we are proud Adam Greenberg contributed a whooping 2 entries.
Dave Landy in the studio.
This is my view through the glass of the Control Room of Dave Landy laying down guitar tracks. He was really tearing it up!


Could someone help me where can I start?
what is this for? what you are trying to accomplish? end goal? etc.
phpbb does not send email it has no email service. it can only use the email servers you make available to it from settings in the admin panel.
normally, you create an email account with your host. you use that to send email from the board.
you would then use whatever email software you wish to check email etc.
what does that mean? what hourly shipping limit? what does shipping have to do with email etc.?
please explain in detail what you are talking about.
I think he is saying the number of posts allowed for a given time frame.
Something I can relate to having at times sent hundreds of emails to competitors on events in the past (Not through phpBB) and being limited and potentially flagged as a spammer.
Moved this to the custom coding section as that would be required for integrating their code.
However they allow for SMTP which phpBB already supports out of the box, you might want to try that. When you go into the ACP hit the email settings link on the left.
Almost all third party SMTP clients, Servers, CMSs, and Plugins will use these settings to connect and relay mail through your Elastic Email Account. We don't know of any software that supports SMTP connections that do not work with Elastic Email, but there is a list of CMSs and Plugins that are designed to work specifically with Elastic Email.
Your Elastic Email Account SMTP Username is the same as your Elastic Email Account email address that you use to log in. However, you can also use your Elastic Email API Key as the Username. If you are using cram-md5 authentication you must supply the Email Address for the Username and your Elastic Email API Key for the Password.
Your SMTP Password is your API Key. There are some systems that limit the character length of the SMTP Password you can provide. If this is the case please contact support to get your API Key shortened.
We support TLS and SSL connections. Make sure the connection port you are using is open on your own server.
And i have send email successful!
Check with your host which ports they have open or you can try different ones. Note that whatever ports your ISP has open may differ from your host so testing it on your ISP can only tell you if the account is active.
Try 465, that supports SSL. Not positive but 2525 doesn't support SSL and that may be the reason for the error if you have SSL checked.
When you have it successfully configured register with an email address using this service.
You will not get perfect score but you need to pay particular attention to reverse DNS errors, most email providers will drop that into blackhole. You should also fix anything to do with SPF. A valid SPF is usually the difference between an email landing in a inbox and spam box.


Bank of America, Apple, Wells Fargo & Co., and General Motors (GM) are some of the latest big-name companies to join RE100, a global collaborative initiative of businesses committed to using 100 percent renewable electricity. Most of the new members officially announced their commitments during Climate Week NYC.
During the event's opening ceremony on Monday, Bank of America revealed it will aim to become carbon neutral and purchase 100 percent renewable electricity for its operations by 2020. Furthermore, the bank says it will work to reduce location-based greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions by 50 percent, energy use by 40 percent, and water use by 45 percent in its operations across the globe by the end of this decade. According to the company, these new commitments build on the success of the bank's 2015 operations goals and the deployment of its $125 billion environmental business initiative.
From 2010 to 2015, the company reduced its GHG emissions by 37 percent, primarily through implementing energy efficiency projects, consolidating space and leveraging a less-carbon-intensive grid. To achieve carbon neutrality, the bank will continue to scale its energy efficiency and conservation efforts, purchase 100% renewable electricity, and utilize carbon offsets.
Notably, the bank recently purchased Texas-based wind power for the company's Texas data centers. This will contribute five percentage points toward the 2020 carbon-neutral goal.
Already an established leader in renewable energy, with 93 percent of its global operations in 23 countries running on renewable power last year, technology giant Apple announced it, too, is joining RE100 and is committed to reaching the 100 percent mark. The Climate Group says Apple is most interested in working with RE100 on pushing renewable energy into supply chains.
The Climate Group adds that last year, Apple launched a clean energy program to help its manufacturing partners in China to lower their carbon footprint. It is now working with them to install more than 4 GW of new clean energy worldwide by 2020, and during Climate Week NYC, Apple announced that its plastics supplier Solvay SA and phone casing supplier Catcher Technology would both work to use 100% renewable energy by the end of 2018.
In addition, VF Corp. – owner of several apparel and footwear brands, including The North Face, Timberland and Wrangler – announced its RE100 membership and a 100 percent by 2025 renewables goal.
"Climate change is the defining issue of our generation, and it's incumbent upon us as large global businesses to take action and lead by example," commented Letitia Webster, vice president of global corporate sustainability at VF Corp.
Prior to the Climate Week NYC event, GM also announced it was joining RE100, and the automaker plans to generate or source all electrical power for its 350 operations in 59 countries with 100 percent renewables by 2050. GM says its new RE100 pledge, along with the pursuit of electrified vehicles and efficient manufacturing, is part of the company's overall approach to strengthening its business, improving communities and addressing climate change.
GM says it currently saves $5 million annually from using renewable energy – a number it anticipates will increase as more projects come online and the supply of renewable energy increases. The new commitment builds on GM's previous goal to promote the use of 125 MW of renewable energy by 2020, and the company expects to exceed this when two new wind projects come online later this year to help power four manufacturing operations.
According to GM, the company has 22 facilities with solar arrays, three sites using landfill gas and the four aforementioned facilities that will soon benefit from wind. In addition, GM is in the process of adding 30 MW of solar arrays at two facilities in China.
Over 80 companies worldwide, including BMW, Coca-Cola, IKEA, and Google, have joined RE100 so far, and the number of participants is expected to keep growing.
Photo courtesy of GM: A 2.2 MW solar array powers 1.5 percent of GM's Lordstown assembly plant in Ohio, the home of the Chevrolet Cruz.


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Spies of Mississippi: New Film on the State-Sponsored Campaign to Defeat the Civil Rights Movement
A new documentary reveals how the Mississippi state government spied on civil rights activists in the 1950s and 1960s.
A little-known state agency called the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission hired spies to infiltrate the civil rights movement and squash attempts to desegregate the state and register African Americans to vote. Some of the spies were themselves African-American.
The Commission generated more than 160,000 pages of reports, many of which were shared with local police departments whose officers belonged to the Ku Klux Klan.
The film, "Spies of Mississippi," also looks at how some of those reports contributed to the 1964 deaths of Freedom Summer activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner 50 years ago.
For more, we speak with Jerry Mitchell, an investigative journalist for the Jackson Clarion-Ledger. He won the release of more than 2,400 pages of Commission records in 1989, and used those to reopen many cold cases from the civil rights era. His work helped lead to the 1994 conviction of the killer of Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers and paved the way for 23 more convictions. We are also joined by Dawn Porter, the award-winning producer and director of "Spies of Mississippi," which is now streaming online at PBS Independent Lens.
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Vallartasol Hotel
This family-friendly city hotel is situated in the northern hotel zone of Puerto Vallarta. Puerto Vallarta lies in Jalisco in Mexico and the hotel lies within the immediate proximity of the town's tourist attractions, shops and public transport links. The town centre is 1.5 km away and the bus station is 4 km from the accommodation. Puerto Vallarta malecon (jetty) can be reached within 8 minutes, Las Glorias beach is 250 metres away and Puerto Vallarta International Airport is some 15 km from the accommodation.This family-friendly hotel comprises a total of 47 guest rooms, spread over 3 floors and is a comfortable option for those staying in Puerto Vallarta. The building is a traditional construction, typical of the port area, and features a tiled roof. Facilities available include a 24-hour reception and check-out service, a hotel safe and dining options including a café and a restaurant, which stands out due to the large palapa, which brings shade to the place and adds a characteristic touch of a beach destination. WLAN Internet access is provided.The guest rooms have been designed to accommodate between 1 and 4 people. They range from economy rooms, which come without air conditioning, to standard rooms with air conditioning, and the mini suite, which features air conditioning and an equipped kitchenette. Rooms come with 2 double beds, cable TV and a private bathroom.


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January Issue 2005
Editor's Note: January 2005
Backward March
It came as no surprise to anyone when President Musharraf, on the eve of the…
It was a New Year's eve like no other. The mullah at a Clifton mosque…
So Close, Yet So Far
Divided by the over 700 kilometer long border known as the Line of Control (LoC),…
Breaking the Barriers
The long wait to see the other side of the Line of Control (LOC) is…
Bowing Out
The last of the air bases in Pakistan occupied by US troops , Shahbaz Airbase…
Passport to Controversy
When the government started issuing the new machine read-passports earlier this year, who would have…
Afghanistan's Media Renaissance
Halfway between the western Afghan city of Herat and the Iranian border, in the dusty…
Happy New Year?
If the quality of life can best be measured by the quantity of hope it…
Costumes and embroidery traditions from bygone eras and diverse cultures continue to inspire Nilofer Shahid.…
Interview: Yasin Malik
"I have never been on Pakistan's 'favoured guests' list" - Yasin Malik, Chairman, JKLF My…
Drumming up a Storm
To borrow from Charles Dickens, it has been the best of times for Pakistan's music…
[caption id="attachment_13309" align="alignleft" width="208"] Shaukat Aziz. Photograph: AFP[/caption] With the three-year International Monetary Fund loan…
If Wishes Were Bollywood Movies
… and you were offered a plum role in one of them, what would you…
The Potters Tale
"They would laugh at my suggestions until the Kabul exhibition was all sold out," says…
By Rehana Hakim | Editorial | Opinion | Published 15 years ago
It was a New Year's eve like no other. The mullah at a Clifton mosque in Karachi began tilawat over the loudspeaker turned on full blast, around 11 o'clock and continued till the clock struck twelve and a burst of fireworks lit up the sky.
A case of, if you can't join 'em, beat 'em! The minders of our morals were back in business, threatening to attack all who dared to party that night. And predictably, all hotels pulled down their shutters to avoid any untoward incident.
The bearded brigade does not believe in holding charity balls, but what's to stop them from doing charity? Being the 'good Samaritans' that they are, they could have fed and clothed the poor sleeping on the footpaths of Karachi on that cold December night.
But the mullahs, as represented by the MMA, obviously have more 'pressing issues' on their mind. Currently, they are locking horns with the Aga Khan Foundation. Extremely troubled by their increasing presence in the Northern Areas, which they view as their turf, the religious groups are threatening the Foundation with dire consequences and, equally abominable, warning the Aga Khanis of relegating them to the ranks of minorities like they did with the Ahmedis.
Surely quality schools, as opposed to madrassas that preach sectarianism and hatred, and well-equipped medical units that provide succour to the region's poorest, rather than abysmal outfits that go by the name of dispensaries, should pose no threat to the mullahs. And yet the beards are up in arms: two staffers of the Aga Khan health services were shot dead and their premises ransacked, allegedly by members of a banned religious outfit. Incidentally, this is not the first episode of it kind. Other Aga Khan outfits have been targeted and threatened, the latest being the Aga Khan Education Board that is being unjustly accused of secularising the curriculum.
All this in the times of Musharraf's war against terrorism and 'enlightened moderation.' And not a squeak from the General. Or his men. But then Musharraf's band of Leaguers are no less 'fundo' than the MMA. Why, they supported Qazi Hussain Ahmed in his demand to include the religion column in Pakistani passports, something which even Saudi passports don't require. And earlier when the question of repealing the Hudood Ordinances, as recommended by the government-appointed National Commission on the Status of Women cropped up, Musharraf's government consigned it to cold storage. This, in order to oblige the MMA for its support in the passage of the 17th Amendment that legalised the LFO. How many more compromises and deals will the General make in order to retain his uniform?
While January 2005 saw Pakistan still grappling with the uniform issue, most of South Asia was attempting to come to grips with a disaster of epic proportions: the tsunami that left 1,50,000 plus dead and wreaked massive destruction in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and the Maldives.
And there were stories aplenty — of courage and compassion and a coming together to ease the victims' trauma and suffering; stories that were a testament to the human spirit; stories that resurrected one's faith in the goodness of humankind and rekindled our hopes for a better world.
And a happier tomorrow…
Rehana Hakim is one of the core team of journalists that helped start Newsline. She has been the editor-in-chief since 1996.


SNP MSP Joan McAlpine has set up a parliamentary meeting with senior representatives of Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE) in a bid to bring an end to the long running saga of fibre broadband connectivity at The Crichton Estate near Dumfries.
As part of the Atlas Project, a broadband infrastructure scheme funded by the EU, faster fibre-optic technology was installed in every building on the Crichton Estate in 2005.
However, the fibre broadband was never connected. Atlas Connect Limited, a company that was setup and wholly owned by Scottish Enterprise to carry out the work was subsequently sold to SSE plc in 2010. In all that time, the fibre connection was never used by SSE despite the Crichton Trust asking for it to be set up.
Gwilym Gibbons, the CEO of Crichton Trust, has outlined the organisation's ambition to turn Crichton into a 'Gigabit campus' as part of its continued development. The Trust believes that using the Estate's fibre broadband connection is pivotal to Crichton's ability to attract new business and investment.
"The Crichton Trust have big ambitions for the future of the Estate. They see fibre broadband as integral to their plans.
"SSE seem to have no interest in operating or maintaining a fibre broadband connection at the site. It has just sat dead since it was put in.
"This is a curious situation as it means they are leasing an asset from which they receive no benefit. Surely, the sensible thing to do would be to surrender the lease to the Crichton Trust and let them connect the Estate for the benefit of everyone.
The Crichton Estate constitutes an 85-acre parkland area which incorporates food, drink, leisure activities, business and an academic campus. The land is owned by Dumfries and Galloway council who leases it to the Crichton Trust – a not-for-profit organisation.
Four other sites around Scotland were connected under the Atlas Project and all of those sites were able to utilise their fibre connection after it was installed.
SSE currently owns the lease to the Estate's fibre broadband cabinet but the company has refused to operate and maintain the line. This means that Crichton has been without fibre-optic connectivity as the network has lain dormant since it was installed back in 2005.
Ms McAlpine hopes that this meeting will lead to a satisfactory resolution for all parties and that Crichton can finally be 'lit up'.


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The Beginning and End of Comedy
by Stephen Stark
No, Ellen Gregory had not always wanted to be a comic. Yes, she wanted to perform. Yes, she had an insane and insatiable hunger for attention. But there was also a fanatical need to get things precisely and purely right, a willingness to go over the slightest detail again and again, wording, timing, voicing, so that you did not just kill, but massacre, annihilate. Which was necessary if you were a five-five blond who wanted to take control of a roomful of potentially very drunk and hostile individuals, people with their own weary, dreary lives, who just wanted to laugh, goddamnit.
But no, that came later. The nuances.
What she wanted, way back when, at sixteen, then seventeen, was out. But the concept of 'out' was about a lot more than just departure. Not that she plumbed that in any depth.
What she wanted, in such a desperate way it felt like psychosis, was to leave the small town in Iowa where she had grown up, escape or perhaps prove correct the feeling that she was not from this planet, and certainly not from that woman in the kitchen, curlers in her hair and too-red lipstick for that early in the morning, in the housecoat that always was updated but never actually seemed to change.
Yes, it was all about her. Ellen. Ellen! Serious delusions of grandeur that were not delusions if they actually came true. Which they did, in spades, which was perhaps even weirder than having them in the first place.
Her decision now, half her life later, at 32, was about as well reasoned—she wanted out.
If it would not be career suicide to leave not only the very funny and very popular sitcom that had made her a household name, but also the place that spawned it, then it was a kind of suicide—killing off a persona that dogged her in doppelgänger fashion. Dissociative dysphoria. Or maybe associative dysphoria. Some people may have liked seeing themselves on television. She was not one of them. The woman on the screen had stolen her soul. Or had pulled it far enough away from her as to create a tug-of-war.
It came to her the plane on the way back from New York. She had been there for a couple of weeks, doing some media, while the workmen finished repairing her house. Erasing all but psychic traces of the place where Wayne Townsend had used his baseball bat to bash through a wall and drag her out of hiding, where she had fumbled with the pistol safety and then fired it while he stood above her, ready to stove her skull in with said bat. She was not sure that the expression on his face—bland and banal—would ever be erased.
Or at least later, when she tried to figure out when the moment came that she knew she had to escape, it seemed that it was then.
New York had been good. She had almost felt herself, but still there was a kind of loneliness, the sense of being divorced from herself, that she'd had in LA for the last couple of years. At a party in SoHo the night before she went back, she saw people she hadn't seen in years, but she felt almost as though she were her own doppelgänger, speaking a role that had been written for her in advance, the words suddenly just appearing in her head.
On the plane, she tried to think of where she had come from and how she had got to this point, and there was no real way of rationalizing it. This happened, that happened. Chance, coincidence, life. How did the song go? Life is what happens when you're making other plans.
This thinking had been sparked by the sight of a man she had known—yes, in the biblical sense—back then. Joshua. On the street, after a party, there he was. Or someone who very much could have been him. He was older of course. But the vision of him shivered her.
How often did it happen, the whole fact of having nearly all of your life-long dreams come true? Dreams you didn't even know were possible came true. And it sort of made you freak, dreams—that ethereal fabric—suddenly turning to gold, which was heavy as hell and hurt like hell when it all fell down, as it tended to do. The Midas problem.
She had no real recollection of what she had been like when she left home, full of a boiling, unvarnished anger at her mother, full of certainty that there was no future whatsoever in her small Iowa town. And then there was the ambition, that I'm gonna show you, motherfuckers kind of truly truly truly insane ambition of the alienated, ignored, the desperate to not to be the perennially second, third or lower tier in high school. Oh, yeah, she had friends in the old days, the others on gymnastics team and in marching band, and even a boyfriend named Lars who was heartbroken at her leaving (about which she did not inform him) because he really had featured her cutting his corn off the cob into eternity.
She had no brothers or sisters, but it wasn't until roughly the time she hit puberty that she began to feel the crushing sensation of parental scrutiny, which came mostly from her mother. It had, of course, the perverse effect of making her want to be secretive, and, eventually, to do things that would require greater and greater secrecy.
And so the hijinks began, and of course began with the usual high school shenanigans—sneaking out late at night and drinking—which she soon discovered she was not particularly fond of—the drinking part, not the sneaking out part. And but so since she was funny, sometimes scurrilously so, people invited her to parties, and while they got wasted, she got funny. She—literally—made girls pee in their pants. This was a particular delight.
But of course the parties got dull, and too easy, and so she started looking for edgier thrills. Did she really, actively, look? Or did it all just sort of evolve?
Such edgier thrills were to be found a few miles down the road in Iowa City, where the parties were bigger, more raucous, and entirely more intellectual (sometimes). She went with her friend Emily, who was six inches taller, looked like she was twenty, read constantly, looked like a movie star (to Ellen, anyway) and attracted 'college men' (in addition to men in general) as she put it like shit attracts flies. And since Ellen didn't like to drink, she made a great designated driver.
It was in Iowa City that she met Joshua.
Later, if she'd had the kind of mind that tackled its unconscious like a philosopher, she might have wondered if the fling-thing with Joshua was really love, or some other, more sort of self-destructive behavior. It was Joshua on whom she based the character of the minister in her act. He played the guitar, wrote earnest songs and earnest stories, wore John Lennon glasses and his hair long, and was distinctly retro.
She had started to make a name for herself—at least at the parties where she went with Emily, because after studying them in silence for what seemed ages, she started making people laugh again. She was just sixteen, could have passed for twelve at the movies, and told jokes that were as sharp as nails.
She couldn't remember the name of the girl now—a sorority type—but at the time, she was Ellen's imaginary nemesis, with brown hair, a perfectly proportioned body, and that entire air of wholesome Iowa goodness. (Exactly on whom Ellen modeled her persona later. Shame she couldn't remember her name.) The night she met Joshua was the night she made Sorority Girl pee her pants. And it wasn't even that good of a joke—about how syphilis got started in Iowa, and she told it like it was true, and, for authenticity, she did it with a kind of earnest, know-it-all schoolgirl air that was just a little shy. It had to do with a particular sheep, a farmer, the farmer's wife, a business man, and a cast of thousands. It was a sort of a shaggy dog story, like a Bob Dylan song, that accumulated wild and sometimes irrelevant details and she was gasping and yapping and really just getting into it, and finally she came back around and smashed the punch line, just knocked it out of the park. And for a moment there was silence, because it had started out with just a few people listening, and others gathering, frowning, wondering, Is this girl serious?, and ended with a crowd, Sorority Girl at the center, in short shorts, her hair tied in ribbons (seriously), and the silence was like the moment between lightning and thunder, when Ellen wasn't sure if the joke was going to work, and just stood there tapping her foot, waiting, and then beer started coming out of people's noses, Sorority Girl looked like she was having an epileptic fit, and it was the first time being funny actually scared Ellen. She got a sly look and went, He, he, he, and people laughed even harder, and Sorority Girl peed her pants, and screamed it, You made me pee my pants, and Ellen thought, Damn straight I did. And the thing was that Sorority Girl wasn't pissed. She was thrilled. Which was the weirdest part. Nobody has ever made me laugh that hard, she gasped, still laughing, and actually fucking grateful, which may have just been the beer.
And then, later, sitting around waiting for Emily to get her fill of older male attention, not to mention beer, and people coming over and giving her, like, high fives and pats on the back (but distinctly not hitting on her), this slim, blondish man with longish hair and John Lennon glasses sat down next to her and said, You ought to do stand up. you are a very, very funny young woman.
She didn't very often get hit on, had actually and frankly never been hit on—if that was what was happening—by an older man (mostly she was ignored because of Emily, and because, after all, she was Runt) and had next to no idea what to do. By that time, she and Lars were dating, but it amounted to not much more than holding hands in the hallways, some low-key petting, movies. Dinner at his parents.
And she had never been called a woman by anyone.
He introduced himself as Josh. She asked what his major was, which is what one tended to do, and he laughed jovially. Turned out that he was a teacher. Something called an adjunct professor of English. He had graduated from the writing program (which she had never heard of but he assured her that it was number one) and he was teaching a couple of sections of composition and lit in order to make enough time to finish his novel. It was the first time she'd met someone with some kind of ambition that extended beyond graduating from high school, much less beyond state lines, and by the end of the night—which was very very late—she had her head on his shoulder. No one, not even Emily, was sober enough to notice. He was from New York, and determinedly old school, he said. She had no idea what he was talking about. He asked for her phone number. She said, I've got some really up-tight roommates. Maybe you ought to give me yours.
Joshua wasn't that far away, and in a matter of (probably) days, she fell in love with him—though she kept Lars as a cover. She fell in love with his bones, his knees and elbows, and the mercury that ran through his soul (like hers).
He was the alien being, astonishingly and thoroughly dim at times, and at others, slashingly incisive and with (what seemed to her then) incredibly penetrating wisdom. He knew everything there was to know about storytelling, or so she imagined, and she read his manuscript (excitingly opaque—she had no way of knowing, really, if it was any good; she didn't read the sorts of things he aspired to).
Perhaps a week into the affair, she drove over to his house—an upstairs apartment on Fairchild, and stripped. He was (bizarrely, it seemed to her) stunned that she was a virgin—or had been until that afternoon—and dismayed at the blood. Don't pull a Sylvia Plath on me, he said, and she had to look it up later, after assuring him that she wouldn't, that Plath almost bled to death when she lost her virginity.
What she was in love with, she discovered later, was his ambition, his secret identity.
It was, in actual fact, upon Josh's own ambition, his own fired and annealed in the shadow of an older, practically-perfect-in-every-way brother, upon which her own had been modeled. Then, she felt as though he was the most exquisite man alive. Later, she would come to think that he was himself almost irrelevant. His ambition gave her a framework, an armature, for her own. She fed on it—because her own ambition had heretofore been just some kind of weird mental illness.
She stole hours from school, from gymnastics practice, from anything she could steal time from to spend with him. She learned from him. The world is big. Iowa is small. Iowa is not your oyster.
He had a personal ferocity and foolishness about being a writer—the one thing his mystical brother was not—always carrying a paperback that just fit in the back pocket of his jeans—Kerouac or Hemingway or Faulkner or something Russian. That and a narrow reporter's notebook that he was jotting in all the time. The way that some men's jeans pockets have the scars of a wallet or a can of snuff, his bore the scars of books.
The sex part was just a thing to get to his soul, and so she plotted and plotted to have sex with him. She was smart enough to use birth control, but when he found out that she was only sixteen, he stopped everything cold.
Line's gone dead.
You didn't guess? I look like I'm thirteen!, she screamed in her head. How could you not know?!?!
She had told no one, though Emily and some of her other friends had guessed about Ellen's secret boyfriend. But guessed wrong. And there was no one to share it with. You can't keep that big of a secret and then let it out. A professor. Not just an older boy, but a full-grown, actual man. It would have been like admitting to fucking your father's friends.
Not possible.
He was a nice guy, the minister, really sweet and sincere. An ex-hippie who had found God when he was on LSD. Literally. He had those John Lennon glasses. The wispy little beard. And oh, man, was he great in bed. Do you know that you can get closer to God by fucking a minister? It's true. He told me.
The grief of it—the loss of Joshua, not only the contact but the mental detachment that came in the pure unalloyed hope of seeing him, a hope that was, in many ways a hope of hope, and but also stealing bits of his soul to feed her own—Joshua who represented possibility in life, Joshua who gave her a vision of the outside of this very small little world that increasingly was defined by her mother's sometimes idiotic ideas—in which every noun seemed to be preceded by the pathetically weak and old-womanly adjective nice. Nice cup of tea. Nice boy. Nice time. Nice girl. The kind of thing that made you want to run screaming in the opposite direction.
Joshua had gone on to publish a couple or three books. She read the first when she was starting out in New York—she found herself in bookstores searching for his name, and then one day, there it was, and she was appalled to see way more than just a hijacked shaggy dog story, but the sixteen-year-old, joke-telling kid who fools the hero into having a baby, forcing him into a marriage he does not want. It made her jaw drop and her fists clench.
It was the kind of thing that made you want to spit. Made you want to call the guy up and tell him what an asshole he was for stealing your jokes and your life.
Once she got over the initial shock of it, she found that it was instructive, the merciless theft of someone else's narrative. The maleness of it, the alien notion that you could steal like that. Why she had never thought of it. This was news she could use. She had not seen him since he found out how young she was and kicked her out.
I thought about it, being a minister's wife. But t I just felt like I was too young to take on those kinds of responsibilities, which was a lot of responsibility for a thirteen-year-old. I am kidding. Really. No, stop. Really. I was fourteen.
And I really didn't get along with his wife.
And then that night, her last in New York, there he was. Not at the party, just on the street. It had been so long and so much had changed, she had no way of being sure. But when she turned and saw him, the considered dishevelment of his hair (now much shorter), the John Lennon glasses rejected for expensive designer frames, a weird electric thrill of recognition went through her. Which was also not so much a thrill, because it shot her through with recognition of another kind.
She did not pay him the gratuity of acknowledging him. But still the idea that it might have been him—if indeed it was—made her feel the gap in time. The distance. The self-reinvention. The self-loathing that kept nagging at her, but didn't call itself by that name.
And so in the olden days at home, after he had cut her loose, she got a little looser, went looking for the same kind of thrill, but found nothing similar. And then, to compound matters, one dawn she came home, walking up the street after a party (where there was no Joshua) and finding her mother sitting on the front step. Her mother in her housecoat who had not slept and had been on the step who-the-fuck-knew-how-long, probably cold.
There ensued a battle, or escalation of the battle that had gone one between them, that had lasted until she left, months later, under cover of darkness.
Her mother shook her head in disgust and dismay, in shame. Real, genuine, unalloyed shame. Her beloved one and only daughter sneaking out in the middle of the night. Walking up the street like a streetwalker. Which of course meant she entirely misunderstood. And oh, boy, did Ellen in the pre-dawn light of this late spring morning lay into her.
How dare you, Mother.
Then the accusatory confessional. (A thing, later in life, she would relive in a kind of post-traumatic stress flashback of horror.)
You want the truth. You can't handle the truth. (No, she actually did not say that.)
Ellen hissed details. (Many of them made up and shockingly embellished—which, bizarrely, seemed like a good idea at the time.) Each one hit her mother like a purely physical blow. Ellen, later, much later, regretted this, but at the time, it felt like a kind of freedom, even though she was grounded until she went to college.
In the perverse way of teenagers, she enjoyed the odd freedom of the scarlet S (for slut, slattern, skank) which she got to (pretend to) wear around the house for the last months she was there. She'd say things to her mother like, I cunt find it, muhtherf, or, Ma? Did you ever go to Las Vegas? Play the one-armed babies—I mean bandits?—just for the gag factor.
Her father took it harder, but more distantly, and she took him on less directly, and even—empowered by her own effervescently foolish reading of Our Bodies Ourselves—tried to sit him down and explain to him sexual desire from a female point of view, the Santa Claus-in-reverse explanation of women's sexual desire, from the chimney's point of view—Like, I mean, just because you can't necessarily see it doesn't mean it's not there, you know?—which, truth be told, was humiliating for the both of them, and she couldn't joke her way around his sorrow. She was a sexual being and she had chosen to express it. He got it; he was an adult. He just didn't want her to ruin her life. Evidence of his sorrow lasted. All he said was, I just wish you and your mother could find a way to get along.
Which was at that point asking the impossible.
And then there was the unbearable teenaged itch to leave. Worse than cutting a tooth. The worst kind of inchoate craving. Yes, she had put in applications to college; yes, she had been accepted. But even as she went through the motions of getting excited about acceptance letters, she also knew that she was not going. That even if she did go, it would be a waste of her time and their money.
And but so on the plane, this came back, likely jogged from her memory by the vision of Joshua, real or not. And with it came her loathing of herself. Or the self that had come to occupy the territory that her own self had once owned.
It was later that day that she bought the hair dye. The compact scissors. Both of which she kept at the bottom of her purse, her escape hatch.
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James Robison, Mar 22, 2009
This novel will be superb and this section is great. You know thw words for everything, don't you? I will now be the trillionth person to ask if you're concerned with the name Ellen, the Ellen with exclamation point, and the maybe unwanted resonance of Ellen wanting OUT. Or is this all part of your plan? Who cares. Strong scenes, funny and smart.
Stephen Stark, Mar 24, 2009
I think it was one of those subconscious things, the naming of her. I generally have a really difficult time naming characters. So in the very earliest drafts of this I named her after my cousin Ellen and her husband Greg, who would always at least pretend to enjoy listening to me spin out the plots of novels I was writing or wanted to write. Gregory seemed to work because I wanted that Scot austerity from her father, and the ambition/work ethic. You're actually first to ask. But, if I get the question properly, there is nothing about Ellen that is not All-in. Even getting out, she's all-in.
Jon Davies, Mar 28, 2009
Enjoyed this. I particularly enjoyed the opening paragraph and the scene where she's telling the joke.
Morgan Harlow, Mar 29, 2009
I love your writing, Steve, but I think you may be particularly good in the novel form. I guess it's because you know how to keep a reader interested and wanting to stay with it, something to do with the way you draw your main characters and everything to do with the writing itself
re: standing alone
I'm wondering what would happen if what is introduced in paragraphs 8 and 9 was revisited and furthered in the last paragraphs of this piece
Robert Lamb, May 30, 2009
Steven, this is sooo good. Many lines in it are original and have the heavy whap! of authenticity.
Sure, it stands alone -- but makes you want more.
Great narrative voice. Title fits, too.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 19, 2008) -- A historic meeting next week may decide the fate of tuna in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, one of the world's most important marine resources.
The Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) has an opportunity at its annual meeting June 23 – 27 in Panama City, Panama, to reverse a trend of inaction, and take concrete steps to stop the decline of tuna stocks. Failure of the IATTC to compromise effectively in the past has blocked the consensus required for the adopt ion of binding resolutions.
A coalition of organizations representing the international conservation community and the tuna industry agrees that urgent action is needed. The coalition is calling upon the Commission to follow the advice of its scientific staff to adopt time and area closures to protect tuna, and implement a research program to investigate how to manage fish aggregating devices (FADs) to reduce the capture of non-target species.
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"Despite a clear legal mandate and declining tuna stocks, three international meetings of the IATTC held over the past year have failed to produce measures to protect the very resource upon which not only the tuna industry, but the health of the Pacific marine ecosystem depends," said Scott Henderson, director of marine conservation at Conservation International.
"This is truly the 'tragedy of the commons' in action," observed Meghan Jeans, Pacific fish conservation manager for U.S.-based Ocean Conservancy. "The health of the ocean environment, the long term sustainability of tuna stocks and the interests of many are being put at risk by the short-sighted self interest of a few," she added.
The IATTC is responsible for the conservation and management of fisheries for tunas and other species taken by tuna-fishing vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is comprised of 16 member countries. A fundamental problem underlying IATTC's failure to adopt effective science-based conservation measures is the inability of member states to negotiate measures agreed to by all.
In 2007, representatives of the IATTC agreed to be more proactive in mitigating and preventing tuna stock declines and to undertake a comprehensive review of its performance. This review has yet to begin despite continuing stock declines.
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As job-seeking season gets under way in academe, I contemplate the audacity of offering advice to those who want a tenure-track position at a small college.
I hesitate for the obvious reasons: What I have to say may contradict the advice of many dissertation advisers, it will be potentially unwelcome, and (even worse) it will make me sound old.
Yet, I remember last November when, as head of our department's hiring committee, I read more than 150 cover letters for a one-year position in my department. Like so many years in the past when we have advertised a position, I felt as if I were reading the same letter over and over.
Most letters looked alike in their emphasis on The Dissertation and sounded alike -- as if they were being generated by some amorphous, jargon-laden computer: "My dissertation, based on the theory of [insert theorist here], informs the impact of cultural practices found in [insert adjective here] literary sites."
I thought about telling those earnest, brilliant young people to change their ways: to stop writing cover letters in the format and voice preferred by their dissertation directors (or their "placement advisors"). At a small college (or at a community college or at a "New American" college) we yearn to hear a real person writing to us -- a person who has her own voice and lets us know who she is through a clever and witty letter.
My urge to give advice has been prompted by a number of recent essays in The Chronicle like one by Jason Lindsey and Graham Bennett in which they asked Just What Is a Dossier?" As a job-seeking couple, they said they would gladly provide a department with any information it wanted, if only they could figure out what that information was. They mentioned only one "unbreakable rule": Always send a dissertation abstract, even if it isn't requested in the job.
OK, here's my first bit of unsolicited advice: Forget the abstract if you are applying to a small college. Forget about describing your second book. Forget about focusing on how well you understand the intricacies of Judith Butler or Michel Foucault or Jacques Derrida. What we want to hear about in your cover letter is your teaching. Tell us why you love teaching, why you want to spend the rest of your life doing it for little pay, what you can offer our intellectual community.
Before you write a single word of that letter, remember the maxims that we tell our students when they try to write: It is the responsibility of the author to be interesting. We tell students to remember the audience for whom they are writing. We tell them to have their own voice, one that does not sound exactly like everyone else's.
You do not have to follow the "required" five-paragraph letter format. In a cover letter to a teaching-oriented institution, your first paragraph does not have to be about your dissertation. You really can begin by talking about teaching -- about what you do in your classes, about what you want to do in classes you might teach for us.
Talking about teaching, however, does not mean sending a separate "Statement of Teaching Philosophy" in your application packet.
Every such statement I have ever read (and I often don't bother reading them) has said the same thing: I am a student-centered teacher, who listens to students, and who structures a classroom around individual learning styles. Abstractions do not speak to me or to members of many hiring committees; specifics do.
Later in your cover letter, when you do mention your dissertation, you need to be able to explain what you are doing, and why it is important, in clear, jargon-free language. One problem with graduate school is that to succeed at it you have to learn the always-new, specialized language of your field as a kind of second language. When you have adapted to graduate school, that jargon becomes your first language and you forget that to most people outside of your field, you are incomprehensible.
You do not want to be incomprehensible -- or, even worse, perceived as "trendy" with "no substance" -- to the people who might hire you.
You should know that in every department at a small college, there is at least one person who loathes jargon-laden theory, another who doesn't understand any of this newfangled stuff, another likes to think of herself as a trendy theorist but is 20 years out of date. In other words, you will have to explain your dissertation -- and how theory might inform your teaching and specifically your teaching in introductory classes -- in such a way that all of us can understand and appreciate.
If you can do that in a cover letter, you are a gifted writer and just the sort of person we would like to have as a colleague. Always have a nonacademic friend read your dissertation paragraph. Can he understand it? Can he see its significance?
It is also your responsibility as a writer to inject your voice in the letter. Who are you? Right now, almost all of you sound the same. Rarely does your individual voice come through. Is there any evidence in your letter to show why we should interview you, instead of the 150 other people who sound like you?
We read every cover letter, hoping to find out why you want to work with us. Would you fit here? Do you know who we are? Do you know anything about our major requirements?
My department, like so many others at small colleges, is made up of a motley crew of human beings, but we like each other and are looking for someone who would appreciate our collective sense of humor. We like irony. We like self-effacement. We like sarcasm (as long as it is not directed at us, of course).
If you can find the time, check out our department's Web site and Google our individual faculty members. Writing about how you would like to teach "Shakespeare in Film" when one of our senior professors teaches just that is not conducive to getting an interview. But writing about ideas you have for developing a course in our genre or major-author offerings, now that would interest us.
When you insert your personality into your cover letter, you may find that you reveal yourself in ways that your advisers caution against, but that can work to your advantage.
Departments in small colleges often receive letters of application from candidates who seem to be "overqualified." We always wonder, What's going on? If you don't want to tell us about how you were discovered in the conservatory in a compromising position with an undergraduate at your former college, that's fine, but you might want to say something specifically about why our position or our geographic area are especially appealing to you. We do understand that people have families and sometimes need to change location because of a spouse or partner.
Giving a real reason, if you feel comfortable with that, might help many small colleges overcome the sense of "why does that excellent, advanced star want to come here? He won't stay more than a year." Help us here. Remember, we want to hire people and keep them.
Finally, don't even think about applying to a small college unless you love teaching. Students will eat you up. Their need for your time and your energy could overwhelm you, and if you don't love the idea of the enthusiastic undergraduate student just sitting in your office, sipping coffee with you, while you talk about voice in Faulkner or imagery in Toni Morrison when all your papers are just sitting on your desk waiting to be graded -- then the small college is not the place for you.
Although I don't pretend to speak for all (or even many) members of hiring committees at small colleges or any other place where teaching is particularly valued in hiring and promotion, I can say that, as the head of my department's hiring committee over the past 15 years, I am looking for that unusual letter writer who writes about teaching with wit and grace and offers such exciting specific examples that we can hardly wait to hire her and then steal her ideas.
I tell my students that it is possible to inject a bit of one's personality even into something as dry as a cover letter. It is, isn't it? And when better to do it than when applying for a job that 150 others are applying for, too.
Carol Kolmerten is a professor of English at Hood College, where she has taught for 27 years.


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From Latino USA: The Matter Of Castro Tum
By: Latino USA
Originally published at Latino USA
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In 2018, Roland Sylvain was at work when he received an email from an immigration lawyer he'd worked with. The email had an attachment from the Department of Homeland Security, and the message inside was brief. The Department had requested that the New York immigration court put Roland's case, which had been closed since 2014, back on its calendar, in accordance with something called the "Matter of Castro Tum."
"I remember reading this email and shaking," Roland says. "And I ran outside and smoked like 20 cigarettes, back to back to back."
Roland, who was born in Haiti and lived for decades in the U.S. as a legal permanent resident, had been in and out of immigration court since 2012 over a minor criminal conviction, a process that had torn apart his marriage. In 2014, an immigration judge had closed his case using a method known as "administrative closure," which spared him for a time from being deported.
Then, in 2018, Roland's story collided with another man's—a Guatemalan immigrant named Reynaldo Castro Tum. Reynaldo had come to the United States in 2014 as an unaccompanied minor and been sent to live with his brother-in-law in Pennsylvania. Soon after, the government lost track of him.
A few years later, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions took up Reynaldo's case and issued a decision that would prohibit judges from using administrative closure, which might seem like a technicality, but it's threatening to unravel Roland's life.
In this episode of Latino USA, we team up with reporters from Documented, a local immigration news site in New York City, to tell Roland and Reynaldo's stories and explore the life-changing consequences of their collision.
This Latino USA podcast was produced by Alissa Escarce, Mazin Sidahmed, and Max Siegelbaum.
This story was reported in partnership with Type Investigations' Wayne Barrett Project. Ralph Ortega, Phoebe Taylor-Vuolo, Hannah Beckler, Irene Spezzamonte, Grace Moon and Irene Tang contributed reporting.
Latino USA with Maria Hinojosa, produced by Futuro Media, is the longest-running Latino-focused program on U.S. public media.
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