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Challenges Faced by Leaders of Institutions of Higher Learning in Uganda: Case Study of Mbale Public and Private Universities

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After spending 30 years in the education sector, I have realized that there are issues that most of the time cause schools to not operate or function as planned. Each school has its own vision and mission, goal and for well-organized schools strategic plans to attain those goals are developed. Issues arise frequently during the implementation phase of strategic plans. These issues are many and vary with schools. Some are caused by people involved in the education and others are related to situations that sometimes those people can or cannot control.

Education is facing many issues in the world today and following are the top ten issues that need to be considered. According to DeWitt (2014), there are 10 critical issues that need to be examined. These include Common Core Standards, Student learning, technology, social media, politics, high stakes tests, school leadership, pre-service teaching programmes, school climate and poverty. All these are crucial to the field of education and need to be critically looked at in order to gauge education systems and find a way to address those issues and find a way to solve each one of them for the betterment of the education system.

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England reaches 107 for one at lunch

Published: Monday, December 3, 2001, 23:53 [IST]
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Mohali: Opener Marcus Trescothick and skipper Nasser Hussain negated Indian skipper Saurav Gangulys intentions as England reached 107 for one at lunch off 28 overs in the first Test on Monday.Yohannan claimed his first Test wicket in his first over when he had left-handed Butcher caught by Laxman at second slip off a perfect delivery.

The Indians couldnt capitalise on this early break throughs with run making becoming an easy affair as the day progressed.The experienced England pair of Hussain and Trescothick handled the pressure splendidly without giving any qualms. The Indian rookie medium pacers couldnt exploit the conditions much and runs flowed freely from the blades of both batsmen.Even the introduction of leg spinner Anil Kumble failed to check the run flow. Trescothick was batting on 55, with Hussain unbeaten on 44 at the lunch break

Earlier, Indian skipper Saurav Ganguly won the toss and elected to field. The Indians capped Iqbal Siddiqui, Tinu Yohannan and Sanjay Bangar. This is the fourth Test at this ground and the first after India played a draw with New Zealand in 1999.

The teams:

India: Saurav Ganguly (captain), Shiv Sunder Das, Rahul Dravid, V V S Laxman, Sachin Tendulkar, Deep Dasgupta, Harbhajan Singh, Anil Kumble, Tinu Yohannan, Sanjay Bangar and Iqbal Siddiqui.

England: Nasser Hussain (captain), Mark Butcher, Marcus Trescothick, Graham Thorpe, Mark Ramprakash, Richard Dawson, James Foster, Matthew Hoggard, James Ormand, Craig White and Andrew Flintoff.

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Johnson and Permaul destroy India 'A'

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Kingstown, Jun 13: Delorn Johnson and Veerasammy Permaul destroyed India 'A' batting line-up as they gave West Indies 'A' a thumping 125-run win to square the three-match series 1-1 here on Tuesday. On the final day of the second unofficial Test, India 'A' batting collapsed to just 94 runs while chasing 220 for victory. Resuming from 57/4, they could add only 37 runs and were bowled out in 36.4 overs.

It was a case of left being right for the hosts at the Arnos Vale Ground. Left-arm paceman Johnson and left-arm spinner Permaul shared all 10 Indian wickets.

Johnson and Permaul destroy India 'A'

Johnson claimed six wickets for 34 runs while Permaul had figures of 4/22.

India's dismal batting performance cost them the match. They had faltered in the first innings too, scoring 202 runs.

India's hopes had rested on Rohit Sharma and Manoj Tiwary. They resumed batting on the final day but perished early. Tiwary was the topscorer for the team with 20 runs. The next best was from Rohit with 13 runs.

Permaul had a match haul of nine wickets. The 22-year-old from Guyana won the Man-of-the-match award.

The 23-year-old Johnson from Windward Islands registered his best first class bowling figures. His 6/34 is his top performance in only his ninth match. Johnson had taken two wickets in the first innings.

Captain Cheteshwar Pujara had scored an unbeaten 96 to steer India 'A' to an exciting two-wicket victory in the first unofficial four-day Test last Tuesday.

The third and final game of the series starts on June 16 in Gros Islet.

Brief Scores: West Indies 'A' 217 all out in 90 overs (Kraigg Brathwaite 66, Veerasammy Permaul 36, Nkrumah Bonner 25, Shami Ahmed 4/43, Ashok Dinda 2/22, Rohit Sharma 2/31) and 204 all out in 71.3 overs (Jonathan Carter 74, Donovan Pagon 67, Akshay Darekar 6/67, Rohit Sharma 2/47) beat India 'A' 202 all out in 79.2 overs (Cheteshwar Pujara 67, Rahul Sharma 30, Manoj Tiwary 23, Veerasammy Permaul 5/58, Delorn Johnson 2/28) and 94 in 36.4 overs (Manoj Tiwary 20, Rohit Sharma 13, Ashok Dinda 12, Delorn Johnson 6/34, Veerasammy Permaul 4/22).

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Dhaka, Nov 17: ICC President Alan Isaac on Saturday visited Dhaka for two days of meetings with the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

During his visit Isaac attended the thrilling final day of the Test match between Bangladesh and the West Indies as well as touring the Bangladesh National Cricket Academy at the Sher-e Bangla National Cricket Stadium.

Isaac, in an ICC media release, said: "The trip gave me not only a chance to meet the new Bangladesh Cricket Board President Nazmul Hassan and new ICC Vice President AHM Mustafa Kamal but also to see Test cricket at its most exciting.

"If there was ever a match which encapsulated the enduring appeal of Test cricket and its unique narrative, it was this clash between Bangladesh and the West Indies.

"It is a real pleasure to be in Bangladesh and I am grateful for the warm and hospitable welcome that I have received. It was enlightening to see the outstanding academy facilities as well as hear the ambitious plans for future developments in Bangladesh, the hosts of the ICC World Twenty20 in 2014."

Isaac was asked during a media conference about the ICC position on the prospect of Bangladesh touring Pakistan next month and said: "The matter of Bangladesh touring Pakistan is a matter for the two competing nations. While everyone would like a time when international cricket could return to Pakistan should the security situation allow, the ICC's role is only on whether or not to deploy match officials.

"The process is clear. First Bangladesh and Pakistan have to confirm the tour is taking place, then they have to supply a security plan and only at that stage do ICC make an assessment with regard to the match officials."

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Indo-Pak series bigger than Ashes: Irfan Pathan

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New Delhi, Dec 26: A dodgy knee has kept Irfan Pathan out of action and the all-rounder is really disappointed that he wouldn't be a part of the India-Pakistan limited overs series that started in Bangalore on Tuesday.

"It's a big series and I am looking forward towards India doing well. It's unfortunate that I am not part of the Indian squad due to knee injury. The rivalry between India and Pakistan is bigger than Ashes. I hope and pray that India win this series," Irfan said during a promotional event of UNICEF's tie-up with Delhi Daredevils.

Asked about whether it will be a battle between India's batsmen and Pakistan's bowlers, the left-arm seamer agreed.

"I agree with this point. I believe that all the matches would be like that. It would be an interesting contest," he added.

Pathan has not played since sustaining a knee injury after the first Ranji Trophy match against Karnataka in early November.

Pathan said he would put his money on all-rounder Yuvraj Singh to be the "impact player" of the series and exuded confidence about India emerging triumphant.

"We are playing a lot of matches these days, so we are in an advantageous position. Pakistan have not played that many matches, so we have that advantage. Another positive aspect is that we are playing at home. I pray for the Indian team's victory. It's always an entertaining battle," Pathan stated.

Talking about his return to the international cricket, Pathan said, "Hopefully, I will be back in three-four weeks time. I am hoping to get fully fit within a month's time. I will go back to the NCA, prove my fitness and return to the international fold."

Pathan also paid rich tributes to Sachin Tendulkar, who drew the curtains on his long and illustrious ODI career.

"Sachin is a great player. A legend. We should celebrate his achievements on the field rather than thinking negatively on this aspect. We will definitely miss him and his absence will be felt in the dressing room.

"Paaji, as I and many others fondly call him (Tendulkar), has been a legend of the game. We are lucky that such a legend played for India and guided the generation of upcoming cricketers," he said.

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Hyderabad, Feb 2: Karnataka won their seventh Ranji Trophy by beating Maharashtra in the final on Sunday at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium here.

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The R Vinay Kumar-led team successfully chased down 157 to clinch victory in the last session of play on the fifth and final day.

Meet Karnataka's Ranji Trophy winners

During the course of their victorious Ranji Trophy campaign, Karnataka had 19 players representing them.

It was the triumph of youth for Karnataka. The oldest players in the line-up were of 29 years of age. Vinay and S Aravind are the oldest while Shreyas Gopal, who made his first-class debut this season, is the youngest at 20.

Here are the 11 players who featured in the final and 8 others who did duty during the 2013-14 season.

The winning XI of Karnataka in the final (8 of them had played in 2010 final against Mumbai in Mysore where Karnataka lost by 6 runs)

1. R Vinay Kumar (captain)

Age: 29 (joint oldest in the team with S Aravind); Right-arm fast bowler

Season's performance: 29 wickets, 242 runs (8 matches, 1 ton, 1 fifty)

2. Robin Uthappa

Age: 28; Right-hand batsman (opener)

374 runs (5 matches, 1 hundred, 2 fifties)

3. KL Rahul (Man of the match in final)

Age: 21; Right-hand batsman (opener)

1,033 runs (10 matches, 3 hundreds, 4 fifties). Highest run scorer for Karnataka

4. Ganesh Satish

Age: 25; Right-hand batsman

348 runs (7 matches, 1 hundred, 2 fifities)

5. Karun Nair

Age: 22; Right-hand batsman

494 runs (6 matches, 3 tons - in successive games). Finished the Ranji Trophy final with a six.

6. Manish Pandey

Age: 24; Right-hand batsman

729 runs (11 matches, 3 hundreds 3 fifties)

7. Amit Verma

Age: 26; Left-hand batsman

181 runs (2 matches, 1 hundred)

8. CM Gautam (vice-captain and wicketkeeper)

Age: 27; Right-hand batsman

436 runs (11 matches, 1 ton, 2 fifties). Overall, most dismissals in the Ranji Trophy season as wicketkeeper (40 catches, 3 stumpings)

9. Shreyas Gopal

Age: 20 (youngest in the team); Right-hand bat, Legspinner

Season's performance: 22 wickets (5 matches)

10. Abhimanyu Mithun

Age: 24; Right-arm fast bowler

41 wickets (10 matches). Highest wicket-taker for the team.

11. S Aravind

Age: 29 (joint oldest with Vinay); Left-arm fast bowler

9 wickets (4 matches)

Coaches: J Arun Kumar (batting) and Mansur Ali Khan (bowling). The duo was part of 1998-99 Karnataka winning team.

Note: Eight other players were part of Karnataka's campaign during the season. HS Sharath (32 wickets in 7 games), Stuart Binny (11 wickets, 321 runs in 6 games), Mayank Agarwal (380 runs, 8 games), Kunal Kapoor (167 runs, 5 games), R Samarth (132 runs, 3 games), KP Appanna (11 wickets, 100 runs in 5 games), Ronit More (12 wickets, 3 games) and Abrar Kazi (5 wickets, 5 games).

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July 08 2003

Umpires have cleared Essendon ruckman Steven Alessio of any wrongdoing in an incident with St Kilda tagger Steven Baker after video scrutiny yesterday.

Baker will appear before the AFL Tribunal tonight on a charge of kicking Alessio during the last quarter of Essendon's 68-point win over the Saints at Telstra Dome last Friday night.

The Saints had hoped that mitigating circumstances would lead to the report being dropped before the 23-year-old faced the tribunal.

Footage of the incident shows Alessio stumble and tread on Baker's ankle before the Saint appears to swing his free leg.

Melbourne captain David Neitz also escaped a report, umpire Michael Avon deciding there should be no action following a head-high collision between the full-forward and Carlton rookie Jon McCormick.

Brisbane ruckman Jamie Charman's report for striking former teammate Des Headland, of Fremantle, last Saturday at Subiaco was withdrawn.

It will still be a busy night at the tribunal with seven players - including Kangaroo Brent Harvey, reported for allegedly striking Magpie Brodie Holland - facing charges.

Adelaide full-forward Ian Perrie has been reported for striking Richmond's Tim Fleming at AAMI Stadium last Saturday night.

There are four reports - all for wrestling - from the Hawthorn-Western Bulldogs clash at the MCG last Saturday.

Hawk Ben Dixon and Bulldog Rohan Smith have been reported for wrestling, as have Hawk John Barker and Bulldog Brian Harris, minutes into the final quarter.

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A mother's grace under duress

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US death-row prisoner Ricky Langley, who has an unlikely ally in his battle to avoid the death penalty - the mother of the six-year-old boy he murdered.
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A real-life United States death-row drama is about to unfold on a Melbourne stage, writes Robin Usher.

Melbourne actor Anna Galvin has worked in London and Los Angeles for the past decade but the power of a new play about the death penalty in the United States made her feel sick when she read it.

"The tragedy just hit me. I wondered how I could find the stamina to perform it with an audience close by," she says.

Galvin is playing the lead in Lorilei - A Meditation on Loss by Tom Wright, a dramatisation of a woman's attempt to save the killer of her six-year-old son from the death penalty. "I have always been opposed to the death penalty," Galvin says. "But you always wonder how you would feel about it if someone you loved was murdered."

Lorilei is the second death-row play by Wright and the director, Nick Harrington, who took the critically acclaimed This is a True Story from La Mama to London in 2001.

The production, which featured Wright as a death-row inmate with an IQ of just 54, was highly praised by the Guardian newspaper and Time Out magazine.

But Harrington says the spur for the new show was the opportunity to explore the issues from a fresh angle, using interviews and court transcripts. "This is from the perspective of someone who suffered grievously when her six-year-old son was murdered, (who) rose above the barbarism of the death penalty," he says.

Harrington, who worked as a volunteer lawyer at an anti-death penalty centre in New Orleans five years ago, met Ricky Langley, the man convicted of the crime, when he was on death row. "I spent a couple of hours with him in jail on the same trip that I received the diary that became the basis for True Story."

He had no intention of dramatising the case, but Langley won an appeal on a technicality and a re-trial was held earlier this year. The play unfolds as a mystery, with the audience uncertain of the result until the conclusion.

Harrington was impressed by the stand taken by the boy's mother, Lorilei, who asked that her full name be withheld. "She didn't have to get involved, and, after taking a stand, she received real heat from the district-attorney prosecuting the case and even from members of her own family."

Lorilei had to travel about 1500 kilometres from South Carolina, where she moved after the murder, to attend court proceedings in Louisiana, but the district-attorney refused to pay her a living allowance until ordered by the presiding judge.

"She wasn't playing the expected role as the victim's mother," he says. "As a result, she believes the only person who has supported her is her 11-year-old son."

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But the woman's stand even confused Langley's defence lawyers, who claimed in a submission that she had forgiven him for the murder.

"That wasn't true. She has never forgiven him, but she does not believe in the death penalty. She believes in grace and doesn't want his life taken in her son's name," he says. "What she does say is that her son would have forgiven him."

Lorilei blames the system for releasing Langley into the community after an earlier conviction, even though he warned he was not in control of his impulses.

When he killed the boy, he believed he was killing a dead brother whom he claimed was ordering him to commit evil deeds. Harrington says Lorilei went on a binge of drugs and alcohol after the murder in New Orleans in 1992; she was pregnant with her second son.

The Bible featured in her rehabilitation therapy but Harrington says he is not sure how religious she is.

"God hangs in the air, as he does in a lot of southern stories," Harrington says. "But I think she believes in every person's right to be given an opportunity to be redeemed."

Galvin, who studied drama in Oxford after graduating from Melbourne University, was visiting her family when Harrington showed her the script. Most of her previous work was in television series such as The Sentinel, and while she was intimidated by the power of the script, she welcomed the chance to return to the theatre.

"Los Angeles nearly killed my passion for acting," she says. "The quality of a lot of television scripts is soul-destroying." She has concentrated on getting Lorilei's accent right, after speaking to her on the phone. "Her tenacity is amazing, and I don't want anything to get in the way of people appreciating that," she says. "She wasn't lucky enough to have a huge education and she is not super articulate but she showed amazing courage."

Lorilei is keen to see the production but it is organised on a non-profit basis so can't cover the air fare to bring her to Australia.

"But True Story toured to London and I would love to take Lorilei to North America where it would be possible for her to see the show," Galvin says.

When the season ends, she intends to return to the scripts she is working on - one a romantic comedy she hopes will be a money spinner, and the other an historical drama she has been researching for five years.

"I would love to see it developed as a co-production with Australia because I would love to get back here with a professional base," she says.

Lorilei opens at La Mama tonight and runs until November 9. Internationally-renowned human rights lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, will answer audience questions after tomorrow's show and on Friday. Book on 03 9347 6142.

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John Howard shows he holds all the aces in the spending battle

September 7, 2004

The PM does his best to outmanoeuvre Mark Latham as the Medicare war heats up, writes Michael Gordon.

John Howard gave the game away with his very first answer after announcing the most expensive of the four Medicare plans he has brought down in 16 months.

"Well, I have no doubt that what I've just announced trumps anything the Labor Party has put forward in this area," he boasted.

Having clawed back Labor's lead in the polls, Howard is now hellbent on erasing Latham's advantage in the area voters describe as the key issue of the election, health.

His effort yesterday was a pinch from the Latham handbook of surprise politics - audacious, populist, dramatic and, let's be frank, shameless.

After spending $21 million on advertisements telling voters he had made Medicare stronger and fairer, out comes another $1.8 billion in rebates that should make GP consultations $4.50 cheaper. Should being the operative word.

The $1.8 billion is on top of the $917 million for a "fairer Medicare" announced last May, an extra $1.5 billion on MedicarePlus in November and an extra $400 million in March.

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The key words that explain the latest Howard policy are its simplicity and its universality, but there is no guarantee that it will bring bulk-billing rates to anything like the 80 per cent Latham target - or that doctors will pass on all of the rebate.

Labor's policy could well achieve its 80 per cent goal but it offers zilch for the 20 per cent of consultations that will not be bulk-billed if it meets the 80 per cent target. Herein lies its vulnerability.

Howard now seems determined to match or better Latham on health and education in terms of money spent and still protect his advantage on economic management and national security.

The Prime Minister's campaign in week one was distracted by the spectre of rats in the ranks but today's AgePoll, conducted by ACNielsen, shows it still cut through.

He turned his big negative, truth, into a positive by saying the election was all about who voters could trust to run the economy and he forced Latham to fight on his home ground of interest rates.

The result is that the Government goes into the campaign in its best electoral position since just after Latham became Labor leader last December - and a better position than it was in the 1998 campaign.

One danger for Howard is voter cynicism, the view that he is only Medicare's "better friend" because his political life depends on it. Moreover, the new money he found yesterday is also available to Labor to either increase its on bid on health or increase of the scope and scale of the tax policy that will be unveiled today.

Indeed, Howard's bold play on health only underscores the imperative for Latham to be bold on tax.

Labor health spokeswoman Julia Gillard was unimpressed with the Howard boast of "trumping" his opponent. "It's not a game of cards - it's the national health system," she said. But it is also an election and, Mr Latham, it's your lead.


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Sex, Skype and ridicule: an isolated incident or an ingrained problem?

The broadcasting of a young cadet having sex at the Australian Defence Force Academy was an ''abhorrent'' but ''isolated'' incident, says the chief of the defence force, Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston.

The cadet was covertly filmed 12 days ago and the footage broadcast via Skype to fellow students.

Defending the military against claims that it was still in the Dark Ages about gender issues, the Defence chief said he was ''passionate'' about attracting more women into Defence.

''Fundamentally, the incident involved 18-year-olds who had been in the defence force for around 10 weeks, and that's something that's been a little bit lost in some of the media commentary,'' he told The Saturday Age.

''If you draw comparisons against similar institutions - I am talking about university campuses - I think the number of incidents of this kind is less at ADFA than at any other campus in the country … .

''Having said that, we have [things in] common with a lot of those institutions. This generation at universities tends to work very hard and then all of them, when they go out at weekends, they tend to … indulge in what I call binge drinking.''

He refused to answer specific questions about the incident, saying natural justice and due process would not be served if he did. ''I just am absolutely shocked by it. We will ensure that it is fully investigated and those that are found to have failed in their responsibilities will be dealt with accordingly.''

Kate, the 18-year-old cadet who was covertly filmed, knew nothing of the incident until military investigators told her about it three days later.

According to Channel Ten reporters Hugh Riminton and Matt Moran, who have had exclusive access to her since she came to them with the story, the investigators had been tipped off by another cadet disturbed by photos of the incident circulating on mobile phones.

Kate threw up when she was told what had happened. Walking onto the ADFA campus, she found herself the subject of whispers and sniggers. So when investigators told her the culprits were likely to get off with a relatively minor ''prejudicial conduct'' charge, she rang Channel Ten.

The saga has thrown the defence hierarchy into crisis, and opened deep divisions within the broader defence community over whether the ADFA commandant, Bruce Kafer, has been unfairly scapegoated for his handling of the mess.

Defence Minister Stephen Smith showed a rare flash of anger this week when told Kate had been put through disciplinary proceedings on unrelated matters even as the Skype scandal was unfolding. The military had been ''stupid in fact and in law'' to allow that to occur, he told reporters.

Other defence insiders have described Commodore Kafer as respected but ''old school'' and more likely to believe that such incidents should be dealt with quietly within the force.

''The hierarchy has turned a blind eye to sex at both RMC (the Royal Military College) and ADFA over the past 10 years, so watch out for changes, as some of the incidents were typical of what you'd find in a uni environment,'' one source said.

Finger-pointing is also taking place between the ACT police and the Australian Defence Force Investigative Service, with no one yet able to explain why police initially thought no offence had been committed.

Police sources claim the defence brief was faulty in the first instance, defence sources suggest the police did not do their initial job properly.

Yet the public perception is that defence is struggling to contain another in a disturbingly regular parade of sex scandals.

As recently as February, retired NSW judge Roger Gyles flayed the navy over a culture of predatory sexual behaviour, which he had uncovered on board HMAS Success.

The defence force academy too has form. Thirteen years ago a damning report on sexual assault and harassment at ADFA found nearly half of female cadets had experienced ''unwanted gender or sex-related behaviours''.

The head of defence at the time, General John Baker, said he hoped to see signs of improvement within a year.

Former Air Force officer Mark Farmer came forward this week to brief The Saturday Age on other instances of predatory sexual behaviour at the elite academy in 2006.

Perhaps his most damaging allegation was that some sexual assaults had been recategorised as common assaults, to take them out of civilian courts.

''There was just an entire culture of 'we group together, we look after our own, stuff everyone else','' Mr Farmer said.

Contrary views have come from some parents of other students. One with a daughter in the same year as Kate expressed anger at the perception that Commodore Kafer's authority was being undermined and said her daughter was ''ropeable that as a young woman in ADFA she is now being painted as victim. She has nothing but praise for the academy.''

Air Chief Marshal Houston said he was strongly committed to widening female participation in the military and indicated a personal view that women should be allowed into infantry combat roles, which are now closed to them. ''We want to get to a stage where gender is not a discriminator, it's all about physical capacity. ''

More than 18 per cent of naval personnel and 17 per cent of air force personnel are women. Army lags badly, with only 9.8 per cent of its ranks female. The most senior officers in the military, the so-called star-ranked officers, are overwhelmingly male.

The defence chief denied that the high-powered reference group on women that he set up more than two years ago had fallen into abeyance. One informed source said it had not met for a year.

Air Chief Marshal Houston said meetings had been postponed last year while he fought prostate cancer and juggled competing engagements.

He also denied that there had been an attempt to make Kate apologise for going to the media to expose the incident.

''I don't think those are the facts,'' he said. ''If anybody comes forward they are applauded, they are respected.''

Last night the federal opposition said it would question the defence chief on the incident at the Senate estimates hearing next month.

Air Chief Marshal Houston said: ''If the Senate inquires into the matter, Defence will co-operate.''


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July 2, 2005
Top-notch villains such as Darth Vader show that being evil has its
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Top-notch villains such as Darth Vader show that being evil has its advantages as a career path.

As a new round of blockbusters introduces a fresh bunch of baddies, Leo Benedictus offers a few pointers on what it takes to make a villain who lives large in the imagination.

Number 1. Be British

Sophistication in all its forms is a sure sign of evil, and American audiences find nothing more sophisticated (or untrustworthy) than a snooty Brit. The British villain industry - whose leading exports include Steven Berkoff, Ian McDiarmid, Gary Oldman, Jeremy Irons, Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Hopkins and many others - is now estimated to be one of the nation's biggest earners. Alan Rickman alone is more valuable than detergents. Interestingly, British audiences prefer their evil to originate on the continent. Anyone who looks as if they might start speaking in another language is clearly not to be trusted. Thus, as a counterpoint to James Bond (who would himself be the villain in most Hollywood movies), we have Ernst Stavro Blofeld, foreigner extraordinaire.

Nevertheless, five out of six Blofelds have been played by British actors. Anthony Dawson (who was also the evil metallurgist Professor Dent in Dr No) stroked the cat in From Russia with Love and Thunderball. He was followed by Donald Pleasence (You Only Live Twice), Charles Gray (Diamonds Are Forever) and John Hollis (For Your Eyes Only). Hollis' brief appearance was a clear promotion from his previous roles as henchmen to the masked Klytus in Flash Gordon and treacherous Lando Calrissian in The Empire Strikes Back.

Europeans themselves, of course, do not realise how evil they are, which can cause problems. In the German version of Die Hard, for instance, the extremely German terrorists are identified only as "European", and the name of Alan Rickman's character had to be changed from Hans to Jack Gruber.

2. Take up a hobby

Ideally, of course, this should be something evil, such as drug-taking (Gary Oldman in Leon), lair-building or torture. It is also good to try to incorporate a harmless hobby into one's work. Bad guys are keen pet lovers, for instance, with snakes, sharks and piranhas always a popular choice.

The Batman series in particular would never have been possible without the contribution of demented cat, penguin, riddle and coin-tossing hobbyists, among others.

Villains are susceptible to fads too, of course, such as the bomb-making craze of the mid-1990s: Tommy Lee Jones (Ryan Gaerity in Blown Away), Dennis Hopper (Howard Payne in Speed) and Jeremy Irons (Die Hard With a Vengeance) all played crazed bomb enthusiasts, vainly lecturing the hero on the beauty of explosions. Jones' character spent years rigging up his own lair, an abandoned ship, into one marvellous Heath Robinson-type bomb. Happily, he got to see it blow up.

3. Have a name that scores well in Scrabble

Unusual letters of the alphabet, like all unfamiliar things and people, should be treated with suspicion.

A lot of death could have been avoided if a few people had thought twice about Hugo Drax (Moonraker), Zorg (The Fifth Element), Rene Belloq (Raiders of the Lost Ark), Max Zorin (A View to a Kill) and Xenia Zaragevna Onatopp (Goldeneye). Sometimes, though, the name is just too obvious. We will have to wait until July to see why Victor von Doom, aka Dr Doom (Fantastic Four, played by Julian McMahon), was not locked up at birth.

There is some evidence to suggest that this principle works the other way round, filling perfectly normal people like Max von Sydow and Brian Cox with the urge to be evil on screen, or - in the case of Roman Abramovitch - real life. More research is needed to discover why.

4. Feel sorry for yourself

Villains are people too. Usually it was only when something went wrong in their lives (preferably disfiguring them) that they turned to evil. If you or I lost a thumb in our poorly paid bomb-disposal job and then weren't appreciated when we retired, we too, like Dennis Hopper's character in Speed, would put a bomb on a lift and demand a giant ransom (with another two on buses, just in case it didn't work).

In the same way, Sean Bean resents being shot in the head at the beginning of Goldeneye, so naturally he hatches a plan to steal a prototype helicopter, hijack a nuclear weapon in space and then use it to rob a bank. The Bond series, in fact, is positively obsessed with the connection between disfigurement and evil. There is Dr No's prosthetic hand, Largo's eyepatch in Thunderball, Blofeld's scar in You Only Live Twice, Tee Hee's metal arm in Live and Let Die, Scaramanga's third nipple in The Man With the Golden Gun, Jaws' metal teeth in The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker, Renard's bullet in the brain in The World Is Not Enough and Zao's scarred face in Die Another Day. To which we might add that Zorin in A View to a Kill was genetically engineered by Nazis, Franz Sanchez in Licence to Kill suffered from bad acne as a teenager and Goldfinger was clearly overweight.

At the risk of being boring, it is also worth pointing out that Zorg in The Fifth Element (played by Gary Oldman) has a metal leg, the Gestapo officer has a branded hand in Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the latest Star Wars film centres on the disfigurement of Darth Sidious and Darth Vader, the most disabled bad guy of them all. Perhaps one day somebody will assemble all these evil prostheses to create the ultimate robo-baddie. Perhaps not.

5. Get rich

This is very important. While most extremely rich people limit their evilness to hiring a good tax lawyer and flying everywhere, a true villain, having accumulated his first couple of billion, will build an enormous evil empire, hire the most evil henchmen available and then set about trying to take over the world. The Green Goblin in Spider-Man, Elliot Carver in Tomorrow Never Dies and Roman Abramovich at Chelsea are good examples. The starting point for anyone considering a career in villainy, therefore, is to make a lot of money. One route might be by playing villains in Hollywood. Jack Nicholson, for example, is reputed to have made more money from his role as the Joker than any other actor has ever been paid for any movie (about $60 million from a contract that included merchandising).

Once you are rich, flaunting it is a sure sign of evil intent. It was hard to imagine what form an evil meteorologist might take until a group of them pulled up with their shiny new vans and started showing off their equipment in Twister. And if you have obscure and expensive tastes, so much the better. Villains eat caviar from endangered species; heroes are happy with bread and butter.

6. Be Christopher Lee

When a man is 1.97 metres tall, descended from Italian aristocracy, educated at an elite English boarding school, loves opera, speaks French, German, Spanish and Italian, and can "get along" in Swedish, Russian and Greek, you know he is destined for evil. Ian Fleming originally wanted Lee, who was a distant relative of his, for the role of Dr No; Lee didn't get the part but went on to become one of the most prolific screen actors of all time. The Internet Movie Database estimates that 85 per cent of his film roles have been villains.

His record, which includes appearances as baddies in the James Bond, Star Wars and Lord of the Rings franchises, will surely never be surpassed. He has played Scaramanga, Frankenstein's monster, Rasputin, the Mummy, Count Dooku, Saruman (several times), Dr Fu Manchu (five times) and Count Dracula (10 times). Other miscellaneous bad guys from the Lee oeuvre include Lord Summerisle in The Wicker Man, the Tong leader in The Terror of the Tongs and, on one blood-curdling occasion, Prince Philip. How Ralph Fiennes and not Lee bagged Voldemort in the upcoming Harry Potter film remains a mystery.

7. Die extravagantly

One of the reasons that villains are so rich is that they have no need for a pension plan, since the position carries a high risk of violent and ironic death. Thus, if you take an airport hostage in the afternoon (Major Grant in Die Hard 2), you can expect to be sucked into a jet engine before dinner. If you plan to make your fortune by inventing a device that drills holes in battleships in order to start a war that your newspapers can then make a lot of money from reporting on (Elliot Carver in Tomorrow Never Dies, played by Jonathan Pryce), it would be a good idea not to stand near the drill until everything has worked out. And if you steal the Ark of the Covenant for Germany instead of for America (Rene Belloq in Raiders of the Lost Ark), you must expect to be melted by the Lord.

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A five day intensive practical workshop for professional actors led by Louis Lovett

This course introduces actors to theatre making for audiences of all ages.

  • Bridging the divide between the performer and the audience.
  • Our physical presence and how to arrive at a state of calm and openness to our audience.
  • How the actor’s focus can become the audience’s focus.
  • How to bring mischief into your play. Be BOLD in your play and how to FAIL with aplomb.
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  • Gauging your audience’s level of excitement, fear, attention or boredom. How? Why? What to do next?

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Published on September 9, 2014
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The truck should have turned Libbi Piper into a Libbi Pancake -- and it would have, too, if Aaron hadn't shown up and saved her life. The problem? Aaron's the local Grim Reaper... and he only saved Libbi's life because he needs someone to take over his job. Now, Libbi has two days to choose between dying like she was supposed to, or living a lonely life as Death Incarnate. Talk about a rock and a hard place.

And the choice goes from hard to sucktastic when her best friend shows up marked: condemned as a future murderer. Libbi could have an extra week to stop the murder and fix the mark... but only if she accepts Aaron's job as Reaper, trapping herself in her crappy town forever, invisible and inaudible to everyone except the newly dead. But, if she refuses? Her best friend is headed straight for Hell.

I haven't really read a ton of books about Reapers, but I tend to enjoy the ones that I do read immensely. Call Me Grim is no exception. I truly enjoyed this story, and the lore of the Reapers was original and intriguing.
Libbi is an artist who has just won her first blue ribbon in a major art competition. While standing at her painting, admiring the beautiful blue ribbon, she meets this guy who seems a little.... strange. Her mom shows up to see her prize, and to take her and her brother home and Libbi doesn't consider the strange boy much more. Until the next day in class when he shows up outside of her classroom door. It appears that Libbi has a stalker. On the way home from school, she is trying to get away from him when he saves her from being a Libbi-Pancake. From there, things get really, really weird. Her life is about to change, and it will never be the same again.
Aaron, the grim reaper and Libbi-Pancake prevention, offers Libbi a job. His job as the local Grim Reaper. She has two days to accept or she dies. On top of that, one of her best friends has been marked. A choice has to be made, and for Libbi there is only one choice she can make.
This is a fun, fast-paced story with a great Reaper history, and very cool Reaper abilities. The story is kind of dark, with some pretty emotional and disturbing scenes, but there are definitely some lighthearted, humorous parts, too. Elizabeth Holloway strikes a great balance in the book. Her characters are all well-written with distinct personalities. I enjoyed reading from Libbi's perspective. She has a very tough choice on her hands, and the emotional turmoil she goes through is palpable. She is strong but also human, and makes mistakes. Aaron is a broken boy, with a good heart. He is a great teacher, and very tolerant of Libbi. His story is a rough one, and the pain he has lived with for so long comes across very well. The secondary characters are also very distinct individuals, and they all served a purpose to the story.
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Division spy Christy Hadden can't wait for her latest assignment posing as a student at a prestigious New York City academy and car thief extraordinaire. The best part of the mission is her attractive handler, Jeremy, and her new team. The worst part? The sociopath masquerading as the academy's most popular guy. But soon she realizes the car thieves are much more than they seem. Her simple spying mission becomes more dangerous than anyone imagined. If the organization discovers her true identity, they won't hesitate to kill her, and if she fails, others will suffer the same fate. Young Adults, teens and adults will love this exciting suspenseful adventure with a dash of romance. You won't want to put it down.

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Two Heads Are Deader Than One by Elena Hartwell

By Terri Nolan

Elena Hartwell is a novelist, a playwright, and a teacher. A renaissance woman. Her recent novel, TWO HEADS ARE DEADER THAN ONE, features private investigator Eddie Shoes, and is the second in the series.

Hartwell says if Kinsey Millhone and James Rockford had a love child, it would be Eddie Shoes. As homage to the noir private detective, Hartwell has taken that classic character—the hard bitten, loner, male PI—and, first, turned him into a woman who’s not so much hard bitten as she is practical and logical, and, second, not so much a loner as she is a person who was once on her own and now finds herself surrounded by friends and family. Eddie is a new classic.

TWO HEADS ARE DEADER THAN ONE begins with a plea for bail money from Eddie’s high school friend. Eddie’s decision to free her friend sets the stage for more trouble than she imagined. Humor brackets the serious aspects of the human experience explored in the novel. Readers will be thrilled and amused at the same time.

Introduce us to your protagonist. How was she “born”?

My protagonist was born on a road trip. My husband and I were driving across Washington State and for some reason he made up the name Eddie Shoes. I thought that’s a perfect name for a female private eye. I started to think about what this character would be like. What kind of person would be named Eddie Shoes? I realized she would be quirky and a little irreverent and not take life too seriously. She would also be independent and a bit suspicious of people. So that’s where I started with her.

If Eddie were attending a conference what would her fifty word bio be?

Eddie dropped out of high school in Spokane. After traveling up and down the West Coast she settled in Seattle and worked for a private investigator. During that time she earned her own PI license. After her mentor died she relocated to Bellingham, where she currently owns her own agency.

Tell us about your writing process. Do you outline? Are you a pantser? Where do you write?

I prefer organic to pantser. I spend a lot of time mulling over who the characters are and what they’re doing. When I do sit down to write, I don’t have a physical outline, but I have a sense of where I’m going. I know how things start and how they end, and I write those two sections then go back and figure out what happens in the middle. Then I start through a long series of rewrites, during which I hone my plot, figure out the subplots and connection between characters, and fill in the missing places.

I do most of my writing at my little desk in my little writing room in my house on the middle fork of the Snoqualmie River. I travel a lot for the series; conferences, book events, fairs. I teach workshops, and I love to write in hotel rooms. When I’m home there are so many things vying for my attention. When I’m in a hotel, outside of the time I’m actually at the event, I can focus on writing with no distractions.

You have a Ph.D. in dramatic theory and criticism. What is that exactly and what do you do with such a degree?

Basically, it’s a theater degree, with an overview of theater practices, but an inclusion of theory in the writing, production, and performance of theater, including theater history, and an understanding of how to look critically at a text or performance and analyze how it impacts the culture it’s embedded in.

Think of it as a way to understand theater as it is intertwined with people who create, watch, and sometimes fight it. I thought I was going to be a full-time tenured professor at a college, and write on the side, so that prompted the degree. Turned out that was not what I want to do with my life. I am lucky in that I’d always been writing and finally got to pursue the goal of being a full-time writer with teaching on the side. It’s a much better fit.

We are familiar with how a novel is published. How does one publish a play?

For a novelist, publishing is the career. For a playwright, productions are the majority of the career. Most publishers of playscripts won’t even consider publishing a play if it hasn’t had a production.

There are various ways to get a play into production. The playwright writes the script then gets together with some readers to hear it out loud. The playwright does rewrites and looks for a rehearsed reading in front of an audience. The playwright goes through the rehearsal hearing and gets thoughts and feedback from the director, actors, and audience. The next step might be what’s called a workshop production. This can range from scripts in hand, but with blocking and some minimal costumes/set pieces/lights, all the way up to a performance off-book (no scripts in the actors’ hands), like a mini-production.

After that, a playwright looks for a full production: a thre-to-five-week rehearsal schedule, a director with a concept, designers creating sets, lights, costumes, props, publicity, and inclusion in a theater’s mainstage production calendar. Armed with brilliant reviews, the playwright continues to market the play to additional theaters for future productions, after which a publication might happen.

It’s a tricky business to break in to, much harder than finding a publisher or literary agent. There are very few agents in the U.S. who represent play scripts. The catch-22 for playwrights is that to get into the majority of the large professional theaters you have to have an agent. An agent will typically only be interested in playwrights with a proven track record. Most playwrights are always networking and submitting to get their work produced. Scripts usually find their way on to a stage because the playwright has submitted them.

Elena, it was a pleasure meeting you. Thank you for spending time with us at The Big Thrill.

Elena Hartwell spent years in the theater before turning her dramatic skills to fiction. She writes the Eddie Shoes Mystery Series. One Dead, Two to Go, Two Heads Are Deader Than One, and Three Strikes, You’re Dead (launching April 15, 2018). According to Peter Clines, Eddie Shoes is “the most fun detective since Richard Castle stumbled into the 12th precinct.”

Elena lives in Twin Peaks, called North Bend, Washington in the real world. The perfect place for a writer, especially one who kills people for a living.

To learn more about Elena, please visit her website.

Terri Nolan

Terri Nolan began her writing career as a newspaper and radio journalist. She has a degree in Radio/Television from the University of Texas at Arlington and is a freelance reporter. She is the author of three thrillers featuring investigative journalist Birdie Keane. The critically acclaimed and award nominated trilogy includes the novels BURDEN OF TRUTH, GLASS HOUSES, BLUE BIRD, and the short story HOBO JOE. Please visit her at
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25+ New Free Fonts For Your Design Bucket

It’s time to shed the old, and embrace the new. With new websites and print jobs cropping up everywhere, designers crave for something new and fresh. As they should, since people welcome the new and the distinct while they tire away from the old and boring. So today, we’ll be sharing some free fonts for your design bucket!

You must think beyond the usual Times Roman, the Comic Sans, Courier, Verdana, Curlz and Aerial etc. if you are aiming to please and attract people to your website or print. But at the same time, choose something appropriate, readable and unique. You’ll have to look no further, as below you’ll find our compilation of just such free fonts, only for you! When choosing a font for your design work, such as for a website, always make sure it complements the overall look, feel and content of the website, and is in harmonious balance with what the website has to offer. It will help to enhance the image of the website and show that you are a professional designer who has really thought things through to the smallest detail.

The importance of choosing the right font cannot be more stressed upon, since people readily engage with the font first, if not always, and this is what welcomes them, draws them in and piques their interest. We hope these free fonts below will help you to fit perfectly in whatever you design and create. What’s great about these free fonts is that they’re beautiful, unique and distinct and can make any job look like a million bucks went in to create it, when of course they are absolutely free just for you! So, use them to wherever you like, and don’t forget to tell us how you like them! Until next time.

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TUTORIAL : Create Brushed Aluminum Button Icons

Here’s a tutorial I did for the wonderful guys at Pixel for Life on how to create a brushed aluminum button with an inset lighted icon. This is achieved by using layer styles which is great because that means you can change the button or the icon to ANY shape and simply copy the layer style to create new buttons! So be sure to check it out along with the other great tutorials at

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Photoshop, Tutorials, Video : Friday, July 9th, 2010

TUTORIAL : Hand-Stitched Thread in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I’ll show you a quick technique for creating a sewn thread look perfect for that hand-made design you’ve been working so diligently on. You can download the texture used in this tutorial HERE.


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No refunds planned for sold out game

DOWNEY - People who purchased tickets to the Downey-Warren football game two weeks ago but were not admitted to the game will not be getting their money back, Warren Athletic Director Steve Hill said before Warren's first round CIF playoff game last Friday.The Downey-Warren football game on Nov. 13, which saw entry gates close at 6:30 p.m., a half-hour before game time, had sold out. But people were not admitted to the game even after purchasing tickets at full price. "I think that was the fastest Downey-Warren game to ever sell out," Hill said, adding that tickets went on sale at Warren's two ticket offices at 5 p.m. According to Hill, signs were posted on the gates before the stadium's entrance stating that purchased tickets were for immediate entry. It should have been assumed that if you did not enter the stadium immediately, it wasn't guaranteed you would get in once the stadium reached capacity, Hill said. Hill said that people who had purchased tickets earlier in the day were not entering the stadium right away and were instead off-campus, and by the time they came back the stadium had already filled to capacity. Later that night, some customers who complained about the problem were issued refunds. Hill said people who did not obtain refunds that evening will not be able to receive one with their tickets at a later date. Money collected at all Warren sporting events, including football games hosted at Justice Stadium, benefit the entire Warren athletic program. Funds received from these events are used to pay tournament entry fees for other sports, including wrestling, golf, track and field, baseball, softball and others, and are also used to help purchase equipment.

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Sarafina star Leleti Khumalo is rumored to have passed away by a Canadian online account. Mzansi twitter has then sprung on twitter that the speculations are not true. Many of Leleti's fans are still in disbelief and shock. The reports have not yet been proven untrue but twitter seems to be certain that this is hoax as it contained errors in the tweet claiming that Leleti played Sarafina in a Mandela film.
Celebrity hoaxes are very common. Celebrities like AKA and others have been victims. It is better to verify such reports before sharing them.

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A few weeks ago, we might have questioned the usefulness of a bag that can double as a pillow, but having just taken a long-haul flight, and not being great travellers at the best of times, we can actually see where the designers of the Dream Pillow Bag were going with this.

We can't quite understand why the bag/pillow had to have a print featuring scary fruit people, or, indeed, why it had to be $280, but if you can, you can buy it here.

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Tall Tall Trees!

The Grey Eagle and Worthwhile Sounds Present

Tall Tall Trees!

Pierce Edens, Skunk Ruckus

Sun, March 5, 2017

Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm

$10.00 - $12.00

This event is all ages

Tall Tall Trees!
Tall Tall Trees!
The man behind Tall Tall Trees is Mike Savino, a pioneer in the the world of experimental and psychedelic banjo music. If you've seen Kishi Bashi live over the last several years, chances are you've already seen this insane banjo virtuoso playing in K's band, and perhaps opening the show. Often performing solo, Savino’s modern take on the one-man band involves running his homemade instrument, dubbed the "Banjotron 5000" through a slab of effects and loopers, bowing, drumming, and strumming out multi-textured arrangements to support his lyrically driven songs.

Savino is currently prepping the release of his third full length Tall Tall Trees record, which is slated for release on February 17th on Joyful Noise Records.
Pierce Edens
Pierce Edens
Asheville’s Pierce Edens heard old-timey mountain music until his teens; that’s when he was steeped in punk and grunge. Both inform his music. His shadowy baritone has a dark, jazzy canter reminiscent of Tom Waits, while the percolating strings below it veer from bluegrass to closing-time cabaret. The punk manifests in the rebellious free-spirited nature of ‘Montana’

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As those who have seen him live can attest, Pierce Edens absorbed the songwriting, storytelling and musical styling of the surrounding Appalachian Mountains, where he spent his childhood. This history takes the form of old time, folk and bluegrass music as well as spoken words of storytellers from his North Carolina home; this has earned him the moniker of “Appalachicana.”

Over the last ten years, Edens has been drawing on those roots and blending them with the grungy rock and roll sounds that took him in his teenage years. The result is a haunting and fiery mixture that is notoriously hard to pin down. Allmusic.com classifies Edens as both “Folk-Rock” and “psychedelic-grunge,” and No Depression writer Bill Kopp says “[He] could just as easily- and accurately- be tagged with the singer/songwriter label; He’s a gritty troubadour who takes what he needs from each style, blending and bending it to suit the needs of his songs.”

Through relentless touring, independently producing 4 albums (with one on the way), one full length concert film, and sharing the stage with musical heroes such as: Jim Lauderdale, Todd Snider, Will Kimbrough, and Sturgill Simpson, Edens has garnered a dedicated following of fans across the nation. And as Fred Mills of Blurt magazine says… “Edens is the R.F.D. (Real effin’ Deal), and when he and his band have their collective back against the wall, there’s trouble in store.”
Skunk Ruckus
Skunk Ruckus
Three piece self described hillbilly gutrock band....
This is a high energy group that is steeped in tradition but embraces a punk rock ethic and have been featured in the WNC area at venues and festivals, toured with and opened for national touring bands such as Southern Culture On The Skids, The Sawyer Family, The Goddamn Gallows, Cutthroat Shamrock, Pierce Edens and Filthy Still.

You can buy our album at http://skunkruckus.bandcamp.com/
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The Grey Eagle
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Adults. This post is for you so please put down the cup you're rinsing and try to focus. Since you're the president of the world and need to check your cell phone screen often for updates on science, place your mobile device somewhere off limits like the park these days.

Even though the grocery store is bursting with options, one of the main toddler complaints I keep hearing has to do with broken food. Adults, you don't look cute or smart when you hand your child broken anything. You come off as rude and disrespectful. Yesterday my mama handed me 1/3 of a granola bar and several lights went out in my head. I cried on and off for thirty minutes. Today is for healing. It is common knowledge that eating broken food leads to a rapid loss of life-force not to mention it tastes different/awful. The molecules in, say, a heart healthy chocolate chip cookie, are designed to be consumed in round form. When you serve it in a broken half moon the elementary particles hurt your toddler's brain and feelings. Do you want that to happen or do you strive to be a loving person?

Maybe it will help to think about why you decided to become a parent. Most likely you were bored and looking for someone to serve. Now that you have the opportunity to make your life mean something, do your best. Wake up with a smile on your face and say this fourteen times, "Broken food is disgusting, when I serve it I look a little ugly."

Those of you who operate cracker factories have the responsibility to innovate until proper packaging is developed that can preserve the integrity of each individual cracker. Half the product in those boxes has to be thrown out due to chipped edges and premature crumbification. Especially Ritz which are apparently made with air vapor and therefore cannot be enjoyed in a ziploc bag for long before converting into stovetop stuffing mix.

I find it very curious that bottles of wine are always stored impeccably. When it comes to beverages you adults seem to know just what to do.

Crackers aren't the only foods that are prone to breakage. Pieces of fruit, bread, even rice can be too broken for consumption. Trying to manually put a crust corner back on a piece of toast or conceal brokenness in other poorly thought out ways is embarrassing for both parties.

Broken rice is called couscous in some circles and will devastate your family. Please go ahead and serve it if you don't care about anyone but yourself. That's fine.

You might be asking yourself, "What do I do with all of this broken food?" First, blame yourself. After that you have two simple choices. Either eat it in private or throw it away. Just because your toddler may or may not have eaten trash in the past doesn't mean he or she is an actual trash can.

The next time your toddler expresses a bit of upset over being handed something broken, stifle your laughter, calm your tantrum and be professional. Customer service isn't for everyone but maintain a teachable spirit and you should be fine.