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A combination of weight lifting, sprinting, and gymnastics. A
high intensity workout that lasts around 10-20 minutes and is
designed to increase proficiency in speed, agility, balance,
flexibility, and coordination.
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19th, 26th; April 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th; May 7th, 14thTime: 7:00 PM - 7:45 PMLocation: Fitness Center Dance Studio,
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Little disappointed this morning when I weighed myself and only lost .2 of a pound since Wednesday. Not what I wanted to see after struggling through yesterday and reminding myself that this all is possible and not to give up. I’ve decided to completely devote myself to doing two a day work outs at least 3 times a week for at least the rest of the month. I’ll worry about October once I get there.
Need to lose 18 pounds in 15 days to stay on track for what my goal was this month. Crunch time. I can do this.
Daily Calorie Intake
Breakfast - two egg whites with onions, 60 calories
Lunch - “Snack Pack” (contained honey pretzels, grapes, cheese, and apple slices), 200(ish) calories
Snack - NONE! :D
Dinner - 1 Pizza Slice, 300 calories
Total Calories = 560 calories!
Work out = walked 4 miles.
Thoughts?
(Source: microtrauma)
Breakfast - Breakfast Essential Drink 150 calories, Gummy Vitamins
Lunch - Raw Red Bell Pepper 30 calories, Hash Brown 150
Snack - 10 unsalted Crackers 140 calories, Hummus 70 calories
Dinner - Chicken (with melted cheese and salsa) 200 calories, Mashed Potatoes 150 calories, Mixed Vegetables 100 calories
Total Calories = 1005 calories
Work Out = 40 minutes (STRAIGHT) on the elliptical, 20 minutes at 2.2 on treadmill
Decent Day. Now on to plan out my weekend..
And I’m on day 7! only 14 more days to gooooo
Breakfast - Breakfast Essential 150 calories, Gummy Vitamins 15 calories
Lunch - Mixed Vegetables 80 calories, 5 unsalted Crackers 70 calories
Snack - 8 unsalted Crackers 115 calories, Hummus 80 calories, Diet Dr.Pepper 0 calories
Dinner - Chicken (with melted cheese and salsa) 200 calories, Mashed Potatoes 150 calories, Mixed Vegetables 100 calories
Total Calories = 960!
Work Out = 35 minutes on the elliptical, 20 minutes walking 2.2 on the treadmill.
Another great day as far as my diet is concerned! Another weigh in on Saturday :D
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You may or may not know and perhaps care even less, but I've recently tied the knot! It was brillant actually and wholeheartedly recommend it to all of you!!!
So of course it was my stag do a few weeks back and rather than going go-karting or some other nonsense we decided to pay a visit to the chaps at brewdog where Brewdog's Emperor Penguin had invited us to try our hand at brewing. How good was it? FUCKING BRILLIANT! The guys up there are fantastic and incredibly hospitable. It was, despite my somewhat accelerated state of stag do 'refreshment' a really great insight in to what goes on at this now world famous brewery and what makes it utterly special.
It was pretty damn interesting for me to feel the atmosphere of the brewery and to meet the brewers and workers - there's a great collegiate kinda feeling with young brewers from around the world as well as local lads doing what must be one of the hardest and most fun jobs you can do! Brewdog have a great background in collaboration with the likes of Three Floyds and Mikkeler - the gypsy brewer, it's the way it should be and I congratulate James and Martin for fortering this kind of atmostphere.
Frazerburgh is one hell of a place, right on the very edge of Scotland, stuck right out in to the North Sea. It's a place of extremes. Extremes that I discovered whilst camping in the most unsheltered campsite in the UNIVERSE and I didn't feel so fucking clever at 4am in the morning, clutching a bottle of Sink the Bismark while my tent whipped around me in the salty lashing rain, 'you should have pegged it in properly' I hear you say... No that campsite is the devils own work, don't go there in Winter, you'll die.
It makes sense that what's made there is equally extreme and Brewdog have made such an impact on the UK scene, they've ruffled plenty of feathers and in the process have created some beers of true brilliance. Several of which I sampled, regularly, throughout the weekend... In particular we drank a shed load of 5am saint right from the tank.
I was pretty lucky to try a brand new IPA made Bramling cross hops which was bang on. Bramling is a British hop with a distinctly American aroma but a brilliant British fruity taste. The beer is cracking and has a juicy traditional IPA roundness, coupled with a great level of bitterness and a salty bite - this in particular is intriguing and something I've only really noticed in a couple of beers before now. I love it. Is it something to do with brewing with the North Sea literally at your back door? Is it something to do with my tastebuds being fucked after the weekend?
We're just about to put on our creation at North Bar. It's named Alice Porter in honour of my wife (her maiden name) and of course it's a porter! It's 6.2% and smooth as hell, we used alot of the aforementioned Bramling cross as well as a great hop called sorachi. The idea was essentially to brew something pretty stout but use the fruit of the Bramling and the lemony-ness of the sorachi to add that porter tang! It's worked and has produced a highly quaffable beverage along the lines. If you can't get down to North over the next month or so then you may find it at Further North or the Marble Arch in Manchester. A small amount has also been released in London and Aberdeen under the name 'Santa doesn't exist'.
So there you go - ace eh. I must credit the brewers with the creation of the beer - we picked hops and malt and did a load of donkey work, those guys are amazing and I'm looking forward to seeing them at North so I can return the favour... So to speak...
Nice one! The Alice Porter was on at the White Horse last week and it was fantastic - good work!
Niiiiiice....am going to have for lunch tomorrow!
Hey Matt, great post - very amusing.
Congratulations on tying the knot.
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College Prep - High School Planning for College and Beyond
Category: Classes and WorkshopsCategory: Speakers & Lecture Series
Location: Adrian Lamb Room
Join members of the Dunbar Educational Consultants team and Steve Greene from the Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation for this informative session on curriculum planning, standardized testing, and aptitude testing as a means for preparing for college and a fulfilling career.
Founded in 1984 by educator Donald Dunbar, Dunbar Educational Consultants assists families in navigating the admissions process for boarding schools, colleges, graduate schools and therapeutic schools. Don Dunbar’s extensive background in the educational field includes teaching and counseling at St. Paul’s School, Phillip’s Academy-Andover, and the Weston, MA public high school. He is the author of the bestselling book What You Don’t Know Can Keep You Out of College.
The Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation is a nonprofit scientific research and educational organization with two primary commitments: to study human abilities and to provide people with a knowledge of their aptitudes that will help them in making decisions about school and work.
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June 3, 2012: I was adopted by a great family! Yay me!
June 3, 2012: I was adopted by a great family! Yay me!
Hello everyone, my name is Astrid but my friends call me Aster. I'm a totally adorable 18 month old pup who is looking for a great family to spend my life with!
Come on, throw the toy for me!
There's horses and chickens at my foster home too and I like to quietly sit and watch them and I never bark at them. There was this one time a chicken accidentally wandered into my play yard and I thought it was a toy and I was playing with it. Apparently I'm not supposed to carry chickens around though (who knew?) and as soon as my foster dad told me to drop it, I did. Don't worry, the chicken is ok because I was gentle when I was playing with her. I'm such a good girl!
I like playing with short dogs! Check me out playing with my foster brother before my surgery......
I like playing with tall dogs too! Look at me, what a good girl I am!
I like playing with tall dogs too! Look at me, what a good girl I am!
My vet also said I have very mild (grade 1) dysplasia in my left hip, but that I didn't need to worry about that, so I'm not worrying! It sure doesn't slow me down at all! My right knee was sore and swollen when I arrived in foster care, but it is all healed up and doing great too. Hooray!
Check me out running on the trails at my foster home! I'm such a good girl, I come when I'm called and I am very well behaved! Yay me!
I'm looking for a family who lives in a bungalow, or ranch style home with just a few stairs. Flooring should be non-slip so I don't wipe out and hurt my knee! My foster mom says whoever adopts me needs to be active and like to get out and do fun things. She also says you'll need some time to work on some training and socialization with me. That sounds like fun! I'm probably a little too, ummm, enthusiastic, for a home with toddlers since I can be a bit of a goof sometimes.
Yep, I'm a goof!
I'm being fostered in the Bancroft, ON area and my adoptive family will have to pick me up in person. An adoption donation of $500 applies.
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Lokayukta notice to Sheila Dikshit
By IANS - NEW DELHI
26th October 2012 10:51 PM
Delhi Lokayukta Justice Manmohan Sarin Friday issued a notice to Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and PWD Minister Rajkumar Chauhan for putting their photos on loan forms of the Delhi State SC/ST/OBC/Minority and Handicapped Finance and Development Corporation (DSFDC).
"A letter has been sent from our office directing the ministers to respond by Dec 10," an officer of the Lokayukta told IANS.
On Oct 24, the Lokayukta issued notice to the DSFDC to explain why the new forms being sold for Rs.100 carried pictures of Dikshit and Chouhan.
BJP legislator Harshwardhan had complained to the Lokayukta on the issue, accusing the ministers of using the DFSDC to gain publicity and woo
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Woman stripped naked, gang-raped in Tripura
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US campus searches for answers to gun violence
By Adam Geller | AP - BOSTON
11th February 2013 12:27 PM
On a Friday afternoon in December, Lee Pelton was driving home with his 13-year-old daughter in the passenger seat when radio reports of the Connecticut and already is home to some of the nation's strictest gun laws.
"I've had some detractors," Pelton said, describing a note he received from a gun owner "taking me to task for using my First Amendment rights to undermine his Second Amendment rights." The First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech. The Second Amendment guarantees the right to bear firearms.
But when students returned to the Emerson campus in mid-January following the holiday recess, Pelton's call to discuss arms found supporters.
Gregory Payne assigned students in his classes to talk about gun policy and create public service announcements that would address the issue. Spencer Kimball led Emerson's polling club in taking a scientific survey of U.S. voters' attitudes about gun legislation. Benny Ambush. student, student, student,, talked about how her own family has struggled with mental illness, explaining the challenges of committing someone to an institution for care.
"I think that took a lot of courage," Morlath said. "You could tell she was coming from an emotional place."
Student, student Becca Rybczyk, from a small town in."
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William Lloyd Garrison headed the Abolitionist movement to free slaves
Created on Thursday, 07 February 2013 11:13 Last Updated on Thursday, 07 February 2013 11:13 Published on Thursday, 07 February 2013 11:13 Written by Courier Newsroom Hits: 1023
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON
William Lloyd Garrison was born Dec. 10, 1805 and died May 24, 1879. He was the most prominent American abolitionist in the country until Frederick Douglass. He was a journalist, and social reformer. em rejected all who were committed to it.
Garrison began writing for and became co-editor with Benjamin Lundy of the Quaker Genius of Universal Emancipation newspaper in Baltimore, Md. Garrison’s experience as a printer and newspaper editor allowed him to revamp the layout of the paper and freed Lundy to spend more time travelling on Dec. Jan. 1, 1831, to Jan. 1,31, Garrison founded the New-England Anti-Slavery Society. The next year, he co-founded the American Anti-Slavery Society. That same year, 1833, Garrison also visited the United Kingdom and assisted in the anti-slavery movement there. Garrison had a strong influence on the ideas of Susan Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone and other feminists who joined the society. He intended that the Anti-Slavery Society should not align itself with any political party and that women should be allowed full participation in society activities.).
In 1853, Garrison credited Reverend John Rankin of Ohio as a primary influence on his career, calling him his “anti-slavery father” and saying that Rankin's “...book on slavery was the cause of my entering the anti-slavery conflict.”.” On July 4, 1854 he went so far as to publicly burn a copy of the Constitution condemning it as “a Covenant with Death, an Agreement with Hell,” referring to the compromise that had written slavery into the Constitution. [2] His earlier alliance with the famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass disintegrated over their incompatible views regarding the Constitution: Douglass insisted that the document could be interpreted as anti-slavery, whereas Garrison was convinced that slavery had tainted its essence.
Garrison was an important contributor to the suffrage movement.
His outspoken anti-slavery views repeatedly put him in danger. Besides his imprisonment in Baltimore, the government of the State of Georgia offered a reward of $5,000 for his arrest, and he was the object of vituperation and frequent death threats.
After the abolition of slavery in the United States, Garrison continued working on other reform movements, especially temperance and women's suffrage.)
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FOX Saturday Baseball: Chicago White Sox vs Detroit Tigers
MLB Picks
Preview
Chicago White Sox
vs.
Detroit Tigers
Starting Pitchers: Chicago (Sale) vs. Detroit (Porcello)
Date/Time: July 21, 4:05 PM EST
Television: Fox
MLB Odds from Bookmaker
Moneyline: Chicago (-115) Detroit (+105)
Total: 8.5
MLB Betting Game Trends
Chicago White Sox
- Chi White Sox are 1-4 SU in their last 5 games
- The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Chi White Sox’s last 6 games
- The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Chi White Sox’s last 6 games on the road
- Chi White Sox are 1-4 SU in their last 5 games on the road
- The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Chi White Sox’s last 9 games when playing Detroit
Detroit Tigers
- Detroit is 11-2 SU in its last 13 games
- Detroit is 9-1 SU in its last 10 games at home
- The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Detroit’s last 9 games when playing Chi White Sox
- Detroit is 11-4 SU in their last 15 games when playing Chi White Sox
- Detroit is 7-1 SU in their last 8 games when playing at home against Chi White Sox
Don’t look now, but after last night’s win the Detroit Tigers are only half a game behind the Chicago White Sox in the AL Central. The White Sox have led almost the entire way in the division, but the Tigers have finally turned it on. Detroit was seen as a major underachiever through the first half of the year. If the Tigers are going to take the lead in the division on Saturday, they’ll have to do it against the White Sox Ace. First place is on the line in Detroit Saturday afternoon!
Chris Sale has been one of baseball’s best pitchers this year. Sale was turned into a starting pitcher during the offseason after being a successful reliever the past couple years. The results have been better than anyone could have expected. Sale is 11-2 with a 2.11 ERA so far this year. There is no doubt that his dominating pitching is one of the main reasons the White Sox have been such a positive surprise so far this season.
Adam Dunn hit a miserable .159 and had only 11 home runs last season. Dunn has 28 homers and 65 RBI’s to lead the team this year. Alex Rios is another guy who has bounced back in a big way from a down year in 2011. A.J. Pierzynski is putting together a great offensive season, and Paul Konerko continues to be the team’s best all-around hitter. The White Sox are averaging 4.68 runs per game this year.
Many people had written off Detroit after a poor first half of the season, but the Tigers have come roaring back of late. Detroit has won 8 of their last 10 games to close to within half a game of the division lead. Miguel Cabrera has been good all season, but he has been smashing the ball of late. Cabrera is hitting .328 with 21 homers and 77 RBI’s. Those 77 RBI’s are second in the majors behind only Josh Hamilton. Prince Fielder isn’t far behind with 68 RBI’s. Fielder was a huge offseason acquisition, and Tigers fans have to be happy with his play this year. Austin Jackson is a major spark for this offense from the leadoff spot. The Tigers have the fourth best batting average in baseball at .269.
The Tigers have struggled to find good starting pitching this year other than Justin Verlander. One of the main reasons the team is on a winning streak right now is that they have gotten some clutch performances from third and fourth starters in the rotation. Rick Porcello has been inconsistent all season, but he’ll need to be good to give them a chance here.
MLB Free Pick: Under 8.5
Sale has been shutting teams down all season, and Porcello has decent numbers against the White Sox in his career. Look for this one to turn into a tight
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Earlier, unofficial reports had spoken of five casualties.
President Hu Jintao expressed deep condolences over the loss of lives, Xinhua said. He has ordered an investigation into the crash.
The accident happened in the province of Anhui, some 200km (125 miles) south-west of Shanghai.
An unnamed official at the Anhui provincial government office told the Associated Press news agency that the accident had happened at about 1600 (0800 GMT) on Saturday near the village of Yaocun, in Guangde county.
Villagers rushed to the scene after hearing an explosion, a local man told AP by telephone.
The plane's body hit bamboo forest and its tail fell in fields, the man said.
The witness, named only as Tang, said he had seen two bodies before the area was cordoned off.
Details of the type of plane and its flight path have not been given.
Disclosure of military accidents in China is rare.
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The UK National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre's (NISCC) report into Trojan horses in e-mails says they are getting increasingly sophisticated.
Organised gangs are using distribution e-mail lists to cleverly engineer mails that look legitimate and relevant.
The Home Office said many of the attacks seemed to originate from Asia.
Structured and organised.
"We have not seen anything like this in terms of the scale of industrial attacks before," a Home Office spokesperson told the BBC News website.
NISCC is in constant contact with the CNI about net threats, but the aim of this report and the protection advice issued on its website, is to ensure others that fall outside the usual CNI channels of communication get the message.
This would include any organisations that work with commercially sensitive information.
"The reason why we have chosen to go public this way is because we have gone through the usual routes - we have flagged up the threats to the CNI stakeholders.
"But because of the scale and organised nature of these attacks, we have felt the need to scale up the footprint of this alert," he said.
The spokesperson added that NISCC had "no evidence" that any sensitive information had actually been stolen via any attacks, and that the origin of attacks was difficult to pin down.
Based on internet protocol address (IP) evidence, though, they tended "overwhelming" to originate from the Far East.
The number of organisations targeted was also not known, but the fresh advice was aimed at increasing awareness, said the spokesperson.
Alert and aware
Trojan horses are small, malicious programs usually hidden in e-mail attachments. They can also be picked up on certain websites.
They can perform a number of functions once they are launched unwittingly, such as secretly install keylogging programs which can then be used to gather sensitive passwords and other information.
Net security firm."
Increasingly, people are fooled into opening the e-mails because many have a subject line which makes them look like normal correspondence.
The e-mails also often appear to come from people known to the recipient. This kind of "social engineering" is a newer aspect to net threats which cybercriminals are using.
The continued use of e-mail distribution lists to discuss certain topics within businesses and government departments meant specific information and e-mail addresses could be gleaned from the net quite easily, said Richard Veale, director of the specialist information risk management firm, Ebis.
This way, cybercriminals could tailor e-mails to look like a relevant discussion topic to the recipient.
"Some very sophisticated individuals are leveraging the inadequacy in government and corporate security around information flows," he told the BBC News website.
This meant there was a "phenomenal amount" of "uncontrolled information", he said.
"Organisations and government departments are not in control of the information process as much as they thought. It is like leaving a window ajar."
He said quantification of the scale of the threat appeared to be almost impossible and that many businesses may even be unaware they have been hit by a Trojan.
Up to you
Recent reports from anti-virus firms suggest that hackers are getting more sophisticated and can make viruses and other harmful software mutate so quickly that anti-virus software has difficulty keeping up.
The UK's NISCC and National Hi-Tech Crime Unit are working with the authorities in a number of Asian countries to identify and shut down the internet addresses the attacks are coming from.
"There is a limit to what government resources can do and it is up to companies and organisations to take responsibility themselves," said the Home Office spokesperson.
"It is clearly important for companies to always be aware that there are vulnerabilities and threats out there."
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I pray that the little girl is found
You can commit murder and only get 10-15 years. 25 years for selling rx is excessive. Murder is worse. However, she does as the others involved need to be put away for life for whatever happened to Haleigh. You know they all had a hand in it. How stupid to do criminal activity knowing the authorities are going to be watching your every move because of suspisions about this missing girl.
Well who is doing time over the little girl. Sick sick sick.wow the justice system is so devilish and evil. What about the child. Our country cares less about our children. Just ruining the american dream with the judicial system.???????????????????
I just noticed this: half a million dollars in fines. Its called raping the poor for every dime they have today and every dime they will ever possess in the future. What a cruel country America is. CRUEL.
Donna is right. Anyhowm them 2 killed that baby. A child just doesnt disappear. Too high on drugs. Cant remember. Whatever. Guilty. 25 years. Waow. Now u better talk cause u aint got nothing else to do. Where u all buried that baby at. Only 10 years older than haleigh. Ronald is a pedophile. Gross. Being older than this girl who could be haleigh sister. Naw. U all are guilty of jealous crime. Now u can think
and lohan is free as a bird....only in america
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Mashable just reported on a major upgrade from Facebook. The social network would be rolling out an upgrade to its mobile interface bringing unification by rolling out a single interface across all mobile websites. Currently, Facebook offers two types of mobile websites, one being the touch.facebook.com, which is designed to cater high-end smartphones with touchscreens, and m.facebook.com, which is best suited for feature phone.
According to the social network, the company is facing hurdles in maintaining multiple platforms which results to a major problem when it comes to developing new features.
Facebook would be unifying its mobile presence on m.facebook.com, starting today. An official announcement by Facebook’s Lee Byron, read:
There will no longer be a difference between m.facebook.com and touch.facebook.com. We’ll automatically serve you the best version of the site for your device.
With the growing number of users glued to Facebook mobile, the company had to sort out things in order to maintain the rhythm of rolling out new features. The change would provide a consistent user interface across various mobile devices.
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Figueres predicted that the conference would end with countries agreeing on a package of compromise decisions, "fully recognizing that whatever comes out of Doha is not at the level of ambition that we need."."
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It had to come to this, didn't it? You can't trust yourself to stay away from Facebook long enough to get any work done before lunch. And don't get us started on YouTube. We mean that: don't get us started on YouTube. Hours vanish. So you're thinking about software that blocks Facebook and YouTube at specific times because something must stop the madness. That's where FB Limiter from AxiomCoders enters the scene. This free tool prevents users from accessing Facebook, YouTube, or both. Your password controls access. You can keep your kids from going … Read more
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Flaw in encryption armor discovered
An underlying defect in the OpenSSH encryption protocol has been revealed by academics from Royal Holloway, University of London.
Correction at 5:50 a.m. PDT May 20: The spelling of Kenny Paterson's last name has been corrected.
An underlying flaw in the widely used encryption protocol Open Secure Shell (OpenSSH) has been made public by researchers from the Royal Holloway, University of London.
The flaw, which lies in version 4.7 of OpenSSH on Debian/GNU Linux, allows 32 bits of encrypted text to be rendered in plaintext, according to a research team from the Royal Holloway Information Security Group (ISG).
An attacker has a one in 262,144 chance of success. ISG lead professor Kenny Paterson told CNET News sister site ZDNet UK last Monday that the flaw is more significant than in OpenSSH.
"This is a design flaw in OpenSSH," said Paterson. "The other vulnerabilities have been more about coding errors.".
This vulnerability was first made public in November 2008 by the UK Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI), though full details of the flaw were not then given. According to the CPNI advisory, the OpenSSH flaw could be mitigated by IT professionals using AES (advanced encryption standard) in counter mode (CTR) to encrypt, instead of cipher-block chaining mode (CBC).
Paterson said his group had worked with OpenSSH developers to mitigate the flaw, and that OpenSSH version 5.2 contained countermeasures.
"They've fixed (OpenSSH); they've put countermeasures in place to stop our attack," said Paterson. "But the standard has not changed."
Patersonerson added that it always takes time for system administrators to apply patches to servers and clients, no matter whether the software is open source or proprietary.
Tom Espiner of ZDNet UK reported from London.
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Canon's top-end consumer HD camcorder improves stability
For another $200, Canon adds another 32GB and possibly improved image stabilization to its top-end Vixia AVCHD camcorder.
The Canon Vixia HF S11 equipped with the RA-V1 LANC adapter(Credit: Matthew Fitzgerald/CNET)
If you've a yen to pay $1,399.99 for an HD camcorder, Canon now gives you an option. It extends its HF S10/S100 line upward to the HF S11, which adds another 32GB memory, bringing the total to 64GB for the top-of-the-consumer-line. Plus it follows Sony's example, adding an enhanced version of its SuperRange optical image stabilizer, dubbed Dynamic SuperRange OIS, which compensates better while walking and at wide angles. Canon has also boosted its Video Snapshot mode; it's now Advanced, which seems to mean you can pull 4-second clips in playback mode, as well as in capture mode..
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Ebola virus kills 14 in Uganda
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There is no cure or vaccine for Ebola, which manifests itself as a haemorrhagic fever, is highly infectious and kills quickly. An outbreak in Uganda in 2000 killed 224 people.
The disease was first reported in 1976 in Congo and is named after the river where it was recognised, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Scientists do not know the natural reservoir of the virus, but they suspect the first victim in an outbreak becomes infected through contact with an infected animal.
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Higgins to for go half of leader's allowance
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Mr Higgins told the Irish Examiner that the decision to waive the legal entitlement to half the allowance had to be viewed alongside the massive funding still being drawn down by the main political parties.
"They are still getting massive amounts from the exchequer," he said.
The allowance was first introduced in 1938. It was only given to party leaders initially and was also based on the number of sitting TDs each party had. The payment was extended to individual Independents in 2001.
Mr Higgins said he had written to the Department of Finance saying that he would waive a claim to €71,520 of the allowance per annum. This would apply from, and include, December.
The decision would lead to pay cuts for his staff and fewer resources for the party, he added.
The full amount payable to the party on an annual basis from the election of two Socialist Party TDs is €143,040, he said.
The advice received from the department is that the full amount could still be claimed by Mr Higgins, even though Ms Daly has left the party.
It says that "the entitlement is calculated on the basis of the number of members elected as members of the 31 Dail, i.e. two members. The annual amount of the allowance payable is therefor €143,040.
"Any change to the status of the elected membership of the party does not alter the existing legal entitlement to the allowance, although some or all of the allowance can be waived."
Ms Daly said last month she had resigned from the party because she wanted to concentrate on building up the United Left Alliance in the Dáil. But Mr Higgins later said the Socialist Party was campaigning on justice in taxation and it was impossible for Ms Daly, as a member of it, to continue to offer support to TD Mick Wallace, who under declared €1.4m in Vat to the Revenue.
Mr Higgins said that he had also chosen to waive the legal entitlement to a party whip's allowance of €6,000 per annum again next year.
"The Socialist Party did not claim a whip's allowance for small parties of €6,000 per year in 2011, nor in 2012, nor will it in the next year," he said. "We do not believe that this is a justifiable expense."
But Mr Higgins called into question the large sums being drawn down by the main parties.
He pointed to the combined party leader's allowance and other funding for parties which were claimed last year and which went to Fine Gael (€4.5m), Labour (€2.6m), Fianna Fáil (€3.3m), and Sinn Féin (€1.5m).
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Winter Track Notepad: Cavaliers must fine-tune abundance of raw talent
The Caroline winter track and field team doesn’t have a district to compete in, and the Cavaliers have participated in just two meets this season.
But veteran coach Sansberry Harvey likes what he sees so far.
Caroline’s boys have been particularly pleasing to Harvey. Still, he doesn’t want to get too far ahead of himself.
“Right now we’re still raw,” Harvey said. “So we won’t find out about these guys until next Saturday when we go to the Grand Dragon Relays at the Arthur Ashe Center [in Richmond].”
Junior Aason Pankey has qualified for the Group AA state meet in the 55 meters. The boys 800 relay team of Chris Jackson, Pankey, Daquan Pollard and Mark Rollins also qualified for the state meet at the recent Lafayette Icebreaker.
On the girls side, senior standout Jessica Toliver has achieved state qualifying marks in the long jump and 55 hurdles.
Harvey is also expecting a boost from freshman middle distance runner Cassandra Cooper. Cooper is expected to play softball during the spring outdoor season, but she may help out the Cavaliers track team then, too.
“We try not to push the freshmen too hard,” Harvey said. “She’ll make her own decision where to go. But she’s a real competitive kid.”
Caroline’s boys have their core back from the team that won the Battlefield District outdoor title last May. Pollard, Pankey and Bevontae Morris are capable of helping out in a host of different running and field events.
Morris, who also plays basketball for the Cavaliers, is dealing with an ankle injury.
Harvey also anticipates an impact from transfer Deon Ware, who was a hurdler for Spotsylvania last season. Jackson has showed promise in the field events as a freshman, and two distance runners have also stepped up for the Cavaliers.
Junior Aaron Carter was an all-Region I cross country performer this past season, but he has already been defeated by teammate Michael Williams in the 1,600. The duo provides balance for the Cavaliers, along with junior Freddie Romero–Baker, who earned all-state honors in the pole vault last spring.
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Ministry justifies hikes in trainee nurses, midwives' fees
The Ghana Nurse and Midwife Trainees Association and some students of the Mampong Nurse Training College are protesting the increment in school fees by the Ministry.
Some students of the Mampong Nurse Training College, who spoke to Joynews, insisted the new fees be reviewed.
“At first, we were paying GHS400 but now we are paying GHS1500. It’s too much...,” one student lamented.
Another added: “Last (semester) we paid GHS409 for our fees...but this semester we are paying almost GHS1600 and the most annoying thing is about the (hike in the) hostel fee.”
Despite the concerns raised by the students , the Public Relations Officer of the sector ministry, Anthony Goodman has maintained the increments are not as outrageous as being portrayed.
He explained that the increment has resulted due to high cost of living and asked the students to forward their grievances to the ministry.: Ministry justifies hikes in trainee nurses, midwives' fees_2<<
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TUESDAY, November 1, 2011 (Health.com) — Feeling isolated and disconnected from the people around you may keep you from getting a good night’s sleep, even if you’re not aware of it, a small new study suggests.
People who feel lonely tend to experience more nighttime restlessness and disruptions than their better-adjusted peers, the study found, which may partly explain why loneliness has been associated with health problems such as high blood pressure, heart disease, and depression, says lead researcher Lianne Kurina, PhD, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Chicago.
“In lab experiments, when people are intentionally woken up repeatedly, it seems to have effects on [their] metabolism,” she says. “Their insulin sensitivity goes down, almost suggesting that poor sleep could put them at higher risk of type 2 diabetes, for example.”
In the new study, published today in the journal Sleep, the link between loneliness and sleep disruptions persisted even after the researchers took into account marital status and family size. This finding underscores an important distinction between loneliness and social isolation, Kurina says: The amount of loneliness people feel ultimately depends on how they perceive their social situation, not the situation per se.
“There can be people with lots of social connections that feel terribly alone, and conversely there are people with relatively small social networks who do just fine,” Kurina says. “Different people have different needs in terms of relationships—and it’s the space between what you want and what you have that can turn into loneliness.”
The 95 participants in the study all had strong social connections, as they were part of a close-knit, rural community in South Dakota. Yet even small differences in their degrees of loneliness had an impact on their sleep.
Kurina and her colleagues asked the participants how often they felt a lack of companionship, left out, or isolated from others, and they used these responses to rate the men and women on a standard loneliness scale. Then, for one week, the participants wore a wrist device to bed each night that records body movement and sleep disruption (known as an actigraph).
Each one-point increase in the loneliness scale was associated with about an 8% increase in sleep disruptions and restlessness, the researchers found, even when they controlled for age, sex, body mass index, the breathing disorder known as sleep apnea, and negative emotions such as depression, anxiety, and stress.
Loneliness did not appear to influence sleep quality or daytime sleepiness, however, which suggests that the sleep disruptions were minor. More research will be needed to determine if these low-level disruptions can have effects on health similar to those seen in experiments when volunteers are woken up, but it seems plausible that comparable health consequences could occur, Kurina says.
It makes sense that someone who feels alone and vulnerable may wake more easily throughout the night, since early humans may have evolved this tendency to protect against potential threats, the study notes. Even now, Kurina says, short-term feelings of loneliness can be healthy because they can encourage humans to make social connections. Problems can arise, however, if loneliness becomes chronic.
“People who have been very lonely for a while start to expect rejection, to the point where it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy,” Kurina says. For this reason, she adds, it isn’t always helpful to tell someone who feels isolated and insecure to just make friends, get a pet, or go on more dates.
So what’s a lonely heart to do? Begin to rebuild social connections in an emotionally safe way, Kurina suggests. “Engage in situations where you’re not necessarily expecting people to give to you, but where you’re the one giving—like volunteering, or common-interest meetings like book groups,” she says. “Slowly you’ll begin to see the world—and see your relationships—in a more positive way.”
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How to Replace Obamacare
A COMMON LIBERAL REFRAIN is that conservatives have no real health care agenda of their own— other than, of course, opposing Obamacare. For instance, in the midst of debate over the president’s signature health “reform” bill, one progressive Florida congressman famously told the House that the GOP’s plan was for sick Americans to “die quickly.”
Baloney. Conservatives could probably stand to put more emphasis on the latter part of “repeal and replace,” but the fact is that many free-market health care reforms enjoy broad consensus on the right.
The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of Obamacare in late June—after this magazine hits the press. But while the court’s decision could be explosive politically, it will not change the need for conservatives to articulate a strong alternative to state-centered health care. The answer is patient power.
EXPLODING HEALTH CARE COSTS in America stem ultimately from what is known as the thirdparty payment problem—that is to say, the great majority of health costs are not paid by the patients themselves. There is almost always some third party, whether it be an insurance company, an HMO, or the government, footing the bills. Indeed, in 2008, 84 percent of health expenses were paid for by private health insurance or government programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, or CHIP.
Consequently, the consumer has no incentive to control costs. To put it in formal economic terms, the consumer has an incentive to spend until the marginal benefit of additional spending is zero. For instance, if a $1,000 procedure costs you nothing, it’s worth doing—at least in economic terms—for just $1 Of benefit. In an efficient market, consumers spend until the marginal benefit is equal to the marginal cost. That $1,000 procedure should only really be worth it for $1,001 of benefit.
In more colloquial terms, the problem is that consumers have an incentive to spend on health care until it hurts, and they have no incentive to shop around. Even worse, doctors and specialists not only have no incentive to control costs, but they actually have a direct financial interest in spending more. Health care providers have no incentive to compete on price, so they compete primarily on quality and secondarily on convenience.
That explains why the American health care system produces far and away the highest quality care in the world: The rewards go to he who creates the best new innovations and most effective new treatments. It also explains why new technology— which drives down costs in every other field—actually increases costs in medicine.
The only solution is to unite the decision over what health care services to purchase with the economic responsibility to pay for them, so costs can be weighed against benefits. And there are only two ways to do that: either the third-party payer (the government or insurance company) is given the power to decide what treatments the patient is allowed to consume, or the patient is given market incentives to consider the full costs of his health care.
Obamacare (and most foreign systems like Britain’s National Health Service) effectively impose the first alternative. With 159 new bureaucracies, boards, agencies, commissions, and programs to govern American health care, plus the individual and employer mandates that require specific health insurance policies, Obamacare could be rightly Labeled “government-centered health care.” The government takes primary responsibility for paying health expenses. The government takes primary responsibility for deciding what health care services its citizens are allowed to consume. The government, then, decides whether each individual’s health care is worth the price. This is why the concept of the government “death panel” expresses a fundamental truth about Obamacare.
WHAT AMERICA NEEDS NOW is the opposite, a patient-centered alternative that maximizes consumer power, choice, and control over health care and its financing. The intellectual godfather of this approach is John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) in Dallas and author of the 1991 book Patient Power published by the Cato Institute.
Central to this concept are Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), which were first proposed in 1981. HSAs include an insurance policy with a high annual deductible, in the range of $2,000 to $6,000 (the higher the better). Such high deductibles reduce the cost of the insurance so much that the savings would mostly cover the deductible in the first year. The HSA funds earn interest tax-free and roll over year after year. After one healthy year with few or no medical expenses, the patient has enough money in the account to cover all expenses below the deductible.
This transforms the incentives of third-party payment. For all but the most catastrophic health expenses, the patient is essentially using his own money. Whatever he doesn’t spend he can keep for later health expenses or for retirement. The patient, then, will try to avoid unnecessary care and will look for the best prices for routine visits or services.
In turn, since patients are then concerned about controlling costs, doctors, hospitals, and other health providers compete not just to maximize quality, but also to lower prices, as in all normal markets. (This competition will become more intense and effective the more widespread HSAs become.) These incentives would flow all the way through to the developers of new technologies, who would compete to develop technologies that both improve quality and reduce costs.
Federal legislation providing for HSAs was adopted by the Republican congressional majorities in the 1990s and has improved over the years. These HSAs have been proven to cut the growth in health spending by as much as 50 percent. Participation in HSAs and similar high-deductible plans has soared in recent years and may now exceed HMO enrollment.
PATIENT POWER REFORMS replacing Obamacare would expand HSAs throughout the health care system. Workers should be allowed the freedom to choose them in place of employer-provided coverage, the poor to choose them for their Medicaid coverage, and seniors to choose them for Medicare.
These reforms should be complemented by the Consumer Choice Tax Credit, which would effectively level the playing field and give everyone the same tax relief enjoyed by employer-provided health plans. Anyone could use the refundable credit to help pay for insurance coverage. Paul Ryan proposed $2,300 for individuals and $5,700 for families.
Workers would then be free to choose the health insurance coverage they prefer, using the credit to help pay for it, rather than being stuck with the insurance chosen for them by their employers. Their policies would be their own property, and therefore would be completely portable, so the worker would not lose health coverage if he changes jobs or becomes unemployed. The credit could be financed on a revenueneutral basis by replacing the Obamacare tax credits for the purchase of health insurance.
Allowing consumers to buy health insurance across state lines would maximize consumer choice and competition, which would further reduce costs. Unnecessary regulations should be repealed. That includes the thousands of state special-interest benefit mandates, guaranteed issue and community rating, and rules that prevent new health providers from entering markets, such as requirements for a “certificate of need.” Tort reform, of course, would also reduce health costs.
PATIENT POWER CAN BE EXTENDED to provide a complete safety net, ensuring that no one will suffer lack of essential health care, for just a small fraction of the cost of Obamacare. Moreover, this can and should be accomplished with no individual mandate or employer mandate. Obamacare, by contrast, for all of its trillions in future taxes and spending, and both its individual and employer mandates, still leaves millions of Americans uninsured.
Conservatives should begin by giving Medicaid block grants back to the states, as we discussed in the June issue. Each state could then tailor its plan. Some might use the money to provide vouchers that the poor could use to purchase private health insurance, liberating them from the Medicaid ghetto.
A second step necessary to ensure a complete safety net is to allow each state to use part of its Medicaid block grant to set up a high-risk pool. Those among the uninsured who become too sick to purchase health insurance in the market, perhaps because they have contracted cancer or heart disease, for example, could receive guaranteed coverage through the high-risk pool. They would be charged a premium for this coverage based on their ability to pay. Federal and state funding would cover remaining costs. Such high-risk pools already exist in more than 30 states, and for the most part they work well at relatively low cost, because few people actually become truly uninsurable.
The law already provides that insurers cannot cut off existing policy holders or impose discriminatory rate increases because people become sick while covered. That would be like a fire insurer cutting off coverage for an already burning house. If this law needs to be modernized, it should be.
With these reforms, those who have insurance can keep it; those who can’t afford it are given the necessary help to buy it; and those who still remain uninsured and then become too sick to buy it have a backup safety net in the high-risk pools. Everyone can be assured that they will get essential health care when they need it—no individual or employer mandate necessary.
Those who have insurance can keep it; those who can’t afford it are given the necessary help to buy it; and those who still remain uninsured and then become too sick to buy it have a backup safety net in the high-risk pools.
Stephen Moore is senior economics writer for the Wall Street Journal. Peter Ferrara is director of entitlement and budget policy for the Heartland Institute and senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis.
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No Signs of Water Pollution from Arkansas Fracking, Feds Report
An exhaustive study by the United States Geological Survey has uncovered no groundwater contamination from natural-gas drilling in the energy-rich Fayetteville Shale in Arkansas.
No Significant Effects Found.
“For more than 100 years, the USGS has been a source of freely available, unbiased information on our natural resources such as oil, gas, and water, helping government and local leaders make wise decision for the public good,” said USGS Director Marcia McNutt in a press statement. “This new study is important in finding no significant effects on groundwater quality from shale gas development within the area of sampling.”
Chloride was of particular interest to USGS scientists. It moves easily through groundwater without reacting with other ions or compounds, making it, in the words of USGA, “a good indicator of whether chemicals used during hydraulic fracturing are reaching groundwater. In this case, the chloride concentrations from this study were not higher than samples taken from nearby areas from 1951 to 1983.”
Methane, the primary component of natural gas, can be found naturally in shallow shale formations in the Fayetteville Shale. These areas also serve as sources of water for domestic supply. USGS researchers placed a high priority on determining whether fracking might be releasing more methane into area waters.
“What methane was found in the water, taken from domestic wells, was either naturally occurring, or could not be attributed to natural gas production,” USGS reported.
Fayetteville Shale Resources
Though less well known than the Marcellus Shale formation in the U.S. Northeast, the Fayetteville Shale was used for natural gas production several years ahead of the Marcellus play. The gas in the approximately 50-mile-wide formation has been extracted through hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and horizontal drilling, as in similar sites throughout the United States.
Another Blow to Activists
The USGS’s findings cast further doubt on claims by anti-fracking activists that the practice poses a risk to groundwater.
“When environmental activists talk about hydraulic fracturing, they frequently call it ‘dangerous’ or ‘controversial.’ But time after time, in study after study, hydraulic fracturing is shown to have a clean bill of environmental health, as the USGS’s recent findings in Arkansas confirm,” said Daniel Simmons, director of state policy at the Institute for Energy Research.
“The fact remains that there are no confirmed cases of groundwater contamination from hydraulic fracturing” anywhere in the United States, Simmons noted.
EPA Extends Comment Period
In a related development, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced in January that it is extending public comment on its investigation of chemicals found in water near Pavillion, Wyoming. Without fully explaining its reasons, EPA extended the comment period, originally scheduled to expire in mid-January, until Sept. 30.
In late 2011, EPA issued a draft report claiming its researchers had found chemicals consistent with hydraulic fracturing in groundwater near Pavillion, but not in drinking water. EPA did not present any evidence the chemicals, which are also consistent with activities other than fracking, were a byproduct of fracking in the region. State environmental officials said EPA itself had contaminated the groundwater when it drilled two monitoring wells.
Bonner R. Cohen, Ph. D. ([email protected]), is a senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research in Washington, DC.
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Mustard seed futures up on increased buying
New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI) Mustard seed prices spurted by Rs.63 to Rs.3,731 per quintal in future trading today on speculators buying against restricted supply in spot markets.
Mustard seed prices shot up in futures trading on brisk buying driven by a firming spot markets trend amid concerns over poor sowing due to decline in rainfall supported the uptrend.
Rising soybean prices and local demand from pickle making industries also remained a positive factor for the mustard seed futures prices, they said.
At the National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange, mustard seed prices for June contract hardened by Rs.63, or 1.72 per cent to Rs.3,731 per quintal in open interest of 50 lots.
Current December contract gained by Rs.36, or 0.89 per cent to Rs.4,075 per quintal, having an open interest of 4,370 lots.
Most active near January contract advanced by Rs.32, or 0.78 per cent to Rs.4,121 per quintal, persisting an open interest of 67,720 lots.<<
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DNR Revamps Volunteer Angler Survey
Maryland’s online Volunteer Angler Survey now has a new look, an added fish species and great prizes! The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) developed the new and improved survey to be more user-friendly, gather additional information and offer incentives to those who participate. Read more
DNR Announces Snakehead Contest Winners. Read more
Yellow Perch Fishing Kicks Off the New Year
As the days grow longer, yellow perch fishing will start to heat up in the Upper Bay, some of its tributaries and salt ponds.
“Maryland hosts an excellent yellow perch fishery, which provides delicious fare for Maryland tables and fine outings for families, especially those with young anglers in need of a break from cabin fever,” said Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Fisheries Service Director Tom O’Connell. Read more
Governor O’Malley Names Larry Simns Admiral of the Chesapeake
Maryland Watermen’s Association founder celebrates 40 years of service
Governor Martin O’Malley has designated Larry Simns Admiral of the Chesapeake for his work as the chief advocate for Maryland’s watermen and their communities, and for his role in promoting changes to better ensure the sustainability of commercial fishing in the State. Maryland Department of Natural Resources Secretary John Griffin presented the award to Simns’ family, on January 18 at the 39th East Coast Commercial Fishermen’s and Aquaculture Trade Exposition in Ocean City. Read more
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Oregon Angler Catches Maryland State Record Catfish.
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Dhoni was under pressure after failing to score a run in the first innings and not managing a test century for 18 months, especially with his wicketkeeping rival Dinesh Karthik scoring 60 as an opener.
But he defied his attacking urges and rode some early scares to craft an unbeaten 76 in 159 balls yesterday, keeping his side level with their hosts in the three-test series. They survived at 282 for nine chasing 380 when bad light stopped play.
''It was very important the way he batted,'' India captain Rahul Dravid told reporters. ''It was very critical. He didn't get a lot of runs in the first innings so to play that innings under pressure was a great effort.'' Dhoni's strike rate in test cricket is 71 runs per 100 balls.
When he scored 148 against Pakistan, his last test hundred, he faced just 153 balls. This innings was made at a rate of just 47 per 100.
''That was what the situation demanded from me today,'' Dhoni said. ''It was quite hard for me but the thing that came to my mind was that it would be a tough day.
''I knew at some point in time it would be a difficult scenario and we would have to save the game. Thankfully I played a good innings and saved the match for us.'' England tried every tactic to take the remaining wicket before the weather intervened, including keeping play going by operating with spinners Monty Panesar and Michael Vaughan.
''He's got a bit of experience and he knew what type of innings was needed,'' Vaughan said about Dhoni. ''Once he got in he was a hard batsman to get out.''
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Rhapsody is announcing today that it will soon be available on Roku. The leading premium on-demand music service has teamed with the market leader in streaming entertainment devices for the TV. The result? Naturally, it rocks. Roku is the latest device in the living room to receive Rhapsody connectivity. In[...]
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Beijing, Aug.5 (ANI): Chinese analysts are claiming that authorities in Beijing have already decided the fate of the wife of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai, even before her trial in connection with the murder of a British businessman, has begun.
Gu Kailai, 53, wife of the formerly popular politician Bo Xilai, is accused with an aide, Zhang Xiaojun, of killing 41-year-old Neil Heywood with poison in November last year.
It is reported that they fell out over a money matter, and the former lawyer also believed the businessman, a long-time associate of the family, was a threat to her son.
The case is to be heard in a Hefei court, The Daily Mail reports.
The trial, which the Chinese Government has not commented on, is now meant to work in 'reverse', with the trial reflecting the already decided decision.
Professor Willy Lam, a China expert from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said that he believed it would be practically 'impossible' for Gu's defence team to overturn the decision.
British businessman Neil Heywood was initially thought to have died form alcohol abuse, but then officials began investigating and suspected poison could be involved
UK diplomats have been given permission to attend the trial. (ANI)
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A St. Louis man has pleaded guilty to charges in a 2008 bombing at a Clayton parking garage that injured one man.
The U.S. Attorney's office says in a release Tuesday that 41-year-old Milton Ohlsen III pleaded guilty plea
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Samsung will tell delegates at the Createc gathering in Tokyo all about its WiMax 2 trial system, based on IEEE 802.16m with a potential speed of 330Mbps.
Samsung, in partnership with UQ Communications, claims that it will show full-HD 3D videos and 16 Full-HD videos on 4 TVs at the same time using its WiMax 2 trial systems and device. To do this, Samsung will use its commercial Mobile WiMax base station, which is currently deployed and operated by major Mobile WiMax operators around the world.
WiMax 2 is based on the IEEE 802.16m standard, which is said to enable efficient, faster, and more converged data communications. It also allows current Mobile WiMax operators to migrate to WiMax 2 by upgrading channel cards or system software.
WiMax 2 standards are expected to be finalised by November 2010. Samsung plans to introduce the first commercial WiMax 2 by the end of 2011.
Samsung is also developing LTE network phones and laptops.
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UK mobile operators unite to prevent 4G interfering with TV
Digital Mobile Spectrum Limited will help to mitigate interference in neighbouring spectruum bands
By Sophie Curtis | Techworld | Published: 11:55, 19 October 2012
The UK's major mobile operators have formed an alliance to limit the impact of 4G services on digital television reception.
EE, O2, Vodafone and Three have created a company called Digital Mobile Spectrum Limited, which will be responsible for ensuring that consumers continue to receive clear Freeview TV signals following the roll out of 4G mobile services in the 800MHz spectrum band from the Spring of next year.
Ofcom explained in June that, due to the proximity of the 800MHz spectrum to the frequencies used for digital terrestrial television broadcasting, signals from mobile base stations could interfere with set top boxes and digital televisions.
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Abbott ready to up the ante on boat policy
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The federal coalition is poised to "rectify" the government's harsh bridging visa arrangements for asylum-seeker boat arrivals after a Labor Left faction chief warned the policy could create a social underclass.
Senator Doug Cameron fears the policy - which allows more asylum seekers into the community on "rolling" bridging visas that provide limited accommodation and financial support but no right to work - could see people starve.
Senator Cameron said Prime Minister Julia Gillard could expect a robust debate on the issue when caucus meets next week for the final parliamentary sitting for the year.
"If you have a situation where people are thrown into the community having to rely on charity then you are creating an underclass in this society," he told reporters in Canberra on Thursday.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott later questioned why asylum seekers should have to live unproductive lives before attaining permanent residence and said the coalition would release a counterplan.
"These people will get Australian citizenship with the worst possible preparation - five years on welfare - for life in Australia," Mr Abbott said in a speech at a function in Perth.
"Now I'll be making further announcements about what the coalition will be doing to rectify this situation in coming days."
Under the policy arrangements announced by Immigration Minister Chris Bowen on Wednesday, the no-advantage test has been extended to asylum-seeker boat arrivals whose claims are processed onshore.
All will be denied permanent protection visas for up to five years even if they are found to be genuine refugees and regardless of whether their claims are processed in Australia, Nauru or Papua New Guinea's Manus Island.
The Australian Council of Social Services said it's a "new low" in the treatment of some of the world's most vulnerable people.
But Mr Bowen on Thursday again rejected accusations the plan was cruel, saying tough decisions were needed to stop people making dangerous boat journeys to Australia from Indonesia or Sri Lanka.
He also rejected criticism the government was losing the fight against people smugglers.
"We have always said that this was a complex problem which would take time to fix," he told ABC radio.
More than 7500 people have arrived in Australian waters by boat in the three months since Labor decided to reopen offshore processing centres on Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island, declaring such refugees would have no advantage over those waiting for resettlement in offshore camps and that they would be denied family reunion visas.
The opposition's current policy comprises offshore processing, reinstating temporary protection visas that allow refugees to work and turning back the boats where it's safe to do so.
Senator Cameron is concerned the government will end up moving further to the right on the issue, which will be a key battleground at the next federal election due in late 2013.
"We've got to start dealing with this in a humanitarian way," he said.
"We should be giving them basic rights to actually earn a living."
The Australian Greens want a community release program and claims processed onshore.
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Celebrity Vacation Homes We'd Most Like to Visit and What to Eat Nearby
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Whether it's a mansion in the South of France, a behemoth of a London home, or a private island crash pad, these are the houses that make us wish we were better friends with celebrities. We've assembled a list of these amazing abodes, along with some great places to dine the next time you find yourself hungrily skulking (NOT stalking) around the Italian Alps to catch a peek of George Clooney's digs or languishing in Laval near Celine Dion's Quebecois river retreat.
If only they knew what good houseguests we'd be!
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John Travolta and Kelly Preston: Ocala, Fla.
Outside the small Florida city of Ocala is the home of John Travolta and actress/wife Kelly Preston. Here, Travolta has created the home of his (and many others’) dreams. Mimicking an airport terminal in looks and also function, it has a commercial-sized landing strip where the actor and avid aviator can land his Boeing 707, literally pulling it into the backyard. Travolta also has a much more modest Gulfstream II private jet, which he can more easily maneuver around the region. If you ever find yourself in the jumpseat, get Johnny to land in Gainesville and take you to Bonefish Grill for their great seafood and dine-at-the-bar specials. Or, maybe he can fly you to Disney World. Or New York City. Or Geneva. Jet off to anywhere your heart desires since the airport is also his house.
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Rediffusion rescued by former DJ Madam Chang
Singapore's only subscription-based radio broadcaster Rediffusion has been given a new lease of life.
Former radio DJ Madam Chang Mei Hsiang has bought over Rediffusion in an effort to bring back the iconic radio service - which shut down in April 30, as losses piled up.
She will call it the "Voice of Singapore" Rediffusion.
And she hopes it will start its broadcast in 2013.
Now a Chinese-language school principal, Madam Chang said she has fond memories of Rediffusion, which she joined in 1985 after arriving in Singapore from Taiwan and was one of the most popular DJs, who enjoyed the support of many listeners.
Madam Chang has also bought all of Rediffusion's archives and equipment.
She said that while she was happy to preserve the radio service, she hopes future programmes will not let down listeners.
"Rediffusion does not belong to me, i think it belongs to Singapore. In the next step, I really hope Rediffusion is voice of Singapore. Because that's the history property for all Singaporeans. In future, Rediffusion not focused on young people, or old generation. We will have a lot of different kind of programmes."
Rediffusion is Singapore's only subscription-based radio broadcaster.
In its heyday, it attracted more than 100,000 subscribers who tuned in for everything from American rock 'n' roll music to Chinese dialect programmes by master storytellers such as Lee Dai Sor, Ng Chia Kheng and Ong To
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A child suffering from dengue receives medical treatment at a hospital in Asuncion, capital of Paraguay, on Jan. 11, 2013. Paraguay is experiencing a dengue epidemic which killed at least 70 people in 2012. Thousands of cases with 3 deaths have been confirmed in January 2013, according to Paraguay's health authorities. (Xinhua/Rene Gonzalez)
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1. @WindhorstESPN
Windhorst has covered LeBron James since the Chosen One was a high school prodigy in Ohio. Now he covers James and the Heat for ESPN.com, and consistently provides scoops, insights and interesting stats.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — the Montgomery Police Department.
Auburn Police Chief Tommy Dawson told the Opelika-Auburn News that Jeremy Thomas, 18, of Montgomery was charged with hindering prosecution after allegedly fleeing the scene of the shooting with Leonard.
Montgomery police said Gabriel Thomas, 41, was also charged with hindering prosecution after allegedly having contact with Leonard after the shooting and providing false information to officers.
Officers also were looking for a third man described as a person of interest in the case, but it wasn't clear why.
Authorities are offering a $15,000 reward for information leading to Leonard's capture.
Authorities said Leonard was charged with three counts of capital murder in the Saturday night shooting during a pool party at University Heights apartments in Auburn. involved.
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Apple (AAPL) has been trying to take more direct control of its device components recently so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the company may be looking to build its own in-house system on a chip (SoC) from the ground up as well. TechCrunch has spotted a new job listing on Apple’s website for an “SoC Modelling Architect / Lead” who will be “at the center of a chip design effort interfacing with all disciplines, with a critical impact on getting functional products to millions of customers quickly.” TechCrunch speculates that the new SoC mentioned in the job posting will be either “A7 or a later successor to the current A6, possibly a completely fresh start in Apple’s mobile chip-design.”
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Johnny Depp's attempt to play every iconic figure from the entertainment world of America, circa 20th century, may be slowing down and not thanks to Depp getting older. Following the nostalgia quotient of "Dark Shadows" and the upcoming "The Lone Ranger" was the planned remake of "The Thin Man" in which Depp was to take on the role of coolly sophisticated amateur crime solver Nick Charles.
The budget for Depp's next dip into the wayback pool reportedly hovers around the 100 million dollar mark. Considering that Nick and his wife Nora infamously lead high near-1% lifestyles marked by fancy cars, champagne, tuxedos and such, that budget could quite easily sneak higher just by virtue of making the ambiance more authentic. "Dark Shadows" got crushed at the box office and it was not just a case of a vampire being the victim of collateral damage from all that fighting in New York City taking place between caped men and legions from another realm.
"Dark Shadows" failed to connect at the box office with either those who grew up on the soap opera or younger viewers who are enamored of everything vampiric. In fact, the failure of Johnny Depp, who was able to turn interminably boring pictures about pirates into some of the biggest box office hits of all time, to make "Dark Shadows" into a monster hit may really be the big story of the summer.
How is it possible for a movie with such a big star that is about the hottest subject in American pop culture right now-vampires-to fail so spectacularly? If Depp couldn't bring moviegoers into the theater to watch vampires, it must say something. But about what? Vampire popularity or Depp's popularity.
Most assuredly the makers of "The Thin Man" have to be hoping that the future course of events pinpoints the lackluster reception of "Dark Shadows" as the beginning of the end for sub-part vampire projects to achieve massive popularity. After all, "The Thin Man" has a substantially thinner built-in audience and if Depp is on the way down, the big mystery at the end may be why it was ever ultimately decided to go ahead with remaking the movie in the first place.
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CNN failed to correct bogus numbers claiming that the growth rate of spending under President Obama is the lowest since Eisenhower. Instead, host Erin Burnett reported the news as something positive for the White House.
While most anyone with common sense would label Obama a big spender, the MarketWatch report – re-circulated by the White House – absurdly claims Obama's "spending binge never happened." And CNN did not discount that argument although they twice reported on it.
Host Anderson Cooper, who runs critical "Keeping Them Honest" reports daily, missed the story entirely. Cooper said just the other night that the slogan "Keeping Them Honest" is "not just a catchphrase" but "our calling," but a take-down of the numbers was nowhere to be found on his Thursday night show.
Burnett, to her credit, provided some context in reporting that "spending under Obama as a percent of GDP is higher than most of the past 60 years" but still admitted that "one thing to take away from this is the President's story on this is much better than a lot of the American people give him credit for. I just don't understand why he wouldn't make more of a stink about it."
The report credits President Bush with the 2009 jump in federal spending, after which the growth rate slowed to a crawl under Obama. "Although there was a big stimulus bill under Obama, federal spending is rising at the slowest pace since Dwight Eisenhower," the report says, noting that spending is rising at a 1.4 percent annual pace under Obama.
Although fact-checking outfit PolitiFact was asleep at the wheel, even the Washington Post gave the MarketWatch report three Pinocchios. "The data in the article are flawed," argues the Post's Glenn Kessler, "and the analysis lacks context — context that could easily could be found in the budget documents released by the White House."
And this Investor's Business Daily piece offers another smack-down of the numbers. The editorial argues that since TARP was a loan but was included in the budget outlays, and since much of the bailout money for Fannie and Freddie was spent in 2009, spending under Bush was "exaggerated" when the TARP money was loaned out and Obama's spending hikes were blurred when the loans were paid back and the bailouts subsided.
"[W]hen you fix Nutting's mistakes, it turns out that Obama jacked up spending 12 percent in 2010, IBD argues.
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The Logan County cross country boys varsity team will be heading to state after winning the Region 1, Class 2A Championship race held on Saturday at Logan County High School. The boys varsity ended with a score of 36.
Sye Head lead the Cougars and won the boys varsity championship race with a time of 16:49. Noah Thomas finished seventh place with a time of 18:17 with Cory Ford finishing right behind with a time of 18:18. Levi Crossley finished next for the Cougars with a ninth place finish with a time of 18:27. Colton Spencer finished eleventh with a time of 18:33 with Kaleb O’Dell right behind to finish thirteenth with a time of 18:34. The final runner for the Cougars, Austin Rouse, finished in twentieth place with a time of 19:11.
The girls varsity didn’t have enough runners to place as a team but had three strong runners. Jacqueline Belcher finished first for the Lady Cougars with a thirty fifth finish with a time of 25:36. Addie Baldwin finished in fifty first place with a time of 27:24. Jasmine Martin was the final runner for the girls with a time of 30:43.
“It’s hard to win region back to back but their already talking about doing it again next year,” said head coach Greg Howard. “I’m excited and ready to go to state. I’m ready to see how we can do at the next level. Last year they really stepped it up.”
The boys varsity team will head to the state championship race Saturday in Lexington.
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Environmental and indigenous groups stepped up their attacks against Canadian oil sands development as two U.S. representatives met with Canadian officials in Ottawa to discuss energy policy. Continue Reading →
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Official: ‘We have failed the wild tiger’
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The head of an international wildlife organization says it has "failed miserably" to halt the precipitous population decline of tigers in the wild. "How have we let this happen?" Continue Reading →
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A damming effect on giant catfish
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The Giant Southeast Asian catfish is in danger of extinction, a recent report concluded. Continue Reading →
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Big whales appear in great numbers in Northern California
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An influx of huge krill swarms has drawn an unprecedented number of blue whales to the Monterey, Calif. coast, delighting boatloads of whale watchers. Continue Reading →
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Giant tortoises making a comeback on the Galapagos Islands
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Captive breeding efforts by scientists and conservationists have led to stunning success in returning the animals to the wild. Continue Reading →
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Tanzania proposes highway in the Serengeti
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Conservationist groups say the proposed highway will decimate migrating wildebeest herds. Continue Reading →
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Costa Rica ecotourism in trouble on Pacific Coast
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Hotel construction projects and a boom of vacation homes along Costa Rica's Pacific coast is threatening the country's famed bio-diversity and its ecotourism model, a newly published research project says. Continue Reading →
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Save the African forests; be a butterfly farmer
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People in the Kakamega Forest in western Kenya have found a way to save their shrinking woodlands and make a living at the same time, all on the wings of a butterfly. Literally. Continue Reading →
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Issues resolved, a spectacular new National Park for Canada
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The Canadian government and the region's northern aboriginal people, Lutsel K'e, hammered out a framework agreement for a new National Park in the Northwest Territories, nearly completing a contentious process that began 41 years ago. Continue Reading →
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Hey, if you got signing day photos, send ‘em. No signing is too small. If you’ve earned the right to play your sport in college, you should be proud.
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Oklahoma City Boathouse Foundation members have dinner at Chesapeake Boathouse
Mike Knopp, Aubrey McClendon, Rand Elliott were at the dinner and reception at the Chesapeake Boathouse. ( Photo by David Faytinger).
Members of the executive committee of the Oklahoma City Boathouse Foundation hosted a dinner and reception for 100 people.
They celebrated the announcement of the Oklahoma River as the designation of the United States Olympic & Paralympic official training site for rowing and canoe/kayaking.
It was also announced that The University of Central Oklahoma will be a training site for Paralympic volleyball and archery.
On the Foundation executive committee are Aubrey McClendon, Clay Bennett, Pete Delaney, Martha Burger, John Richels, Michael J. Knopp and Patrick Downes.
The party was in the event Room of Chesapeake Boathouse.
White hydrangeas and red roses were on the tables and large pictures of the master plan were set around the room.
Among the people there were foundation board members, River Trust members, City Council members, several U.S. Olympians and coaches, Lt. Gov. Jari Askins, Mayor Mick Cornett, Nadia Comaneci, Bart Conner, J.W. Mashburn, Shaun Caven, Burns Hargis, Judy Love, Rand Elliott, Heather and Bob Ross, Karen and Pete Delaney, Jane and David Thompson, Lou and Ray Ackerman, Kirk Humphreys, Lana and Dave Lopez, Alexis Lux, Brenda and Tom McDaniel, Meg Salyer, Kandy and Ron Norick, David Rainbolt, Teresa Rose, Grace and Pat Ryan, and Beverly and Mark Fun
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Of all the emotions on earth, the one most humans seem to most freely express is anger. This is a very dangerous emotion. Mostly, because it leads to the bulk of violence around the planet.
SEE ALSO: 25 People Who Paved The Way For Dr. King
When I say violence I don’t mean just military conflicts. I mean brothers hitting sisters. I mean sisters hitting sisters (and bothers). I mean parents punching and slapping children. I mean kids pulling out guns on the playground. Its all a branch expression of anger. One second of unfocused anger has landed millions of people untold years in prison and even more in execution chambers. Don’t let the next person you know be you!
For most, anger is usually something that’s wrong inside them. It comes some say, from a false sense of entitlement. They believe that they have a “right” over this friendship, this boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife, child, etc. that justifies the reason they slap, choke, or slam someone.You never have that right. Unless you are truly defending yourself (or your family) and there is no other way out, there is pretty much no reason to be violent toward another human being. May times we try to play things up to make them seem more dangerous than they are so we can justify it. We put fake moral frames around it to make it seem like we are a hero. But we’re not. Its just another cowardly act, clothed in another lie.
My son and I were talking about a book on Taoist leadership he’s reading. He quoted a line from the book “They leave the root but try to set up the branches.” If you try to set up hollow branches of fake smiles and laughs around an angry root, its bound to show up eventually.
Find the roots of your anger and face them down. If that means verbally confronting a bully- then do it. But don’t allow yourself to become a bully in the process. If you find a bully staring you back in the mirror, take a moment to really think about why you do what you do. Find its root and yank it up.
The only good anger that I have found, is anger over things that affect common justice. If you see someone being bullied, it should anger you and you should do something to stop it. Tell an adult or tell the person doing the bullying that its wrong.
If you see an animal being abused, an elderly person being neglected it should make you mad. You should do something about it. Take action! But action does not have to mean being violent. Anger is normal. But how you express it, is totally up to you. Learn to uproot your anger so you can let it empower you, not destroy you.
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Ninety-nine golfers are scheduled to descend on Champions Retreat Golf Club this week for the inaugural Club Car Junior. The American Junior Golf Association tour stop has PGA Tour golfer and Augusta native Charles Howell's name on it.
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When the event was first announced, its promoters promised a big-time tour feel. It will probably deliver.
Some of the nation's top junior golfers from 15 states are registered.
There will be some stiff competition from the locals. Evans residents Cody Shafer and Jacob Tilton have been invited. Former Augusta Prep golfer Lee Knox will play, as will Augusta juniors Shepherd Archie, Nick Edry, Dykes Harbin, Chase Parker and Clark Palmer.
More local golfers could join the field today via a qualifier that begins at 8 a.m. at Forest Hills Golf Club.
A Junior-Am fund-raiser tournament will be held Monday morning, followed by a practice round. The 54-hole tournament begins Tuesday morning and will finish Thursday.
The tournament is another reason to laud the area's golf scene. Events like the Columbia County Junior, which provided free food and no entry fee, and a recent initiative to allow juniors to play for free at local courses, are building a solid base of players in the area. Four of the top 10 players on the Georgia State Golf Association points leaderboard are from the Augusta area.
Jeff Knox finishes 10th at Dogwood
Augusta Prep golf coach Jeff Knox finished 10th at The Dogwood Invitational, a prestigious amateur tournament in Atlanta on June 24-28. Knox finished 13-under-par, eight shots behind winner Rory Hie.
Knox and Hie were tied to start the final round, but Hie closed with 62 to tie the Dogwood single-round record.
There's no shame in finishing behind Hie. The University of Southern California golfer is ranked the No. 13 amateur in the world by Golfweek magazine. He was named a Ping All-American this season as a sophomore. He has his own Web site:.
Knox is ranked by Golfweek, as the No. 86 amateur in the U.S. and leads the GSGA men's points standings. He was playing in the group ahead of Hie and said he didn't hear until he finished that Hie was 10-under with a hole to play.
Knox played with Hie when they were paired together during the 2006 Southern Amateur.
Knox's son, Lee, an Augusta Prep graduate, shot even-par for three rounds at The Dogwood Invitational but didn't make the cut, which was set at 3-under-par. Lakeside graduate Brian Carter also missed the cut after finishing at +4.
Last week, Lee played in the Rice Planters Amateur in Mt. Pleasant, S.C.
Jeff will compete in the Georgia Amateur Championship held Tuesday through Friday at Idle Hour Club in Macon.
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Apparently the idea that Columbia County is politically important is all wet.
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The Georgia Water Coalition held a forum this past Thursday at Savannah Rapids Pavilion in conjunction with Paddle Georgia. The forum drew about 200 people from 50 counties around the state.
What it didn't attract is a substantial number of gubernatorial candidates. You would think they'd jump at the chance to address an active crowd in politically astute Columbia County, where the focus was on one of the state's more important issues.
Instead, only three of the seven Democratic candidates paid a visit: David Poythress, DuBose Porter and Carl Camon. Good for them. And not a single one of the seven Republicans decided to show up.
Perhaps the best explanation for the absent candidates' reluctance to address this crowd, on this topic, is that the last time water was on the agenda, a couple of them tried to drown their election chances.
After making it clear at an Atlanta Chamber of Commerce forum that transfers of water from the Savannah River to the ever-thirsty capital wouldn't be prevented by their administrations, Republicans Nathan Deal and Eric Johnson and their staffs then spent the rest of the week mopping up after themselves.
Oddly, their rebuttal-tinged responses weren't even denials. In Atlanta, Deal said interbasin transfers are inevitable, so we should "try to minimize them." Responding afterward to criticism, he said he "will not transfer one ounce of water" from the Savannah to another region. Him personally? Of course not. But will he stop such transfers? Well, he "wouldn't support" them.
Johnson called transfers "part of the solution." In later comments intended to deny that he favors transfers, Johnson simply repeated that they should be available and limited. Good for him for consistency, but why issue a rebuttal - and criticize the media, to boot - if he's just going to repeat himself?
In any event, all three candidates who decided to show up made it clear they oppose interbasin transfers. They haven't felt the need to issue rebuttals or "clarifications" since the event, either.
The rest of them? You'll just have to chase them down to find out what they think, since they didn't find the forum important enough to visit.
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Warne bowls over poker fans with his skill in Las Vegas - 01 Jan 2008
Sydney, July 7 (ANI): Former Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne has made his mark at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, the world's biggest poker tournament. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, after a nervous start initiallyaty Perry joins the Rolling Stones onstage
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London, May 13 (IANS) Singer Katy Perry sang with rock band Rolling Stones during their show in Las Vegas.She performed a rendition of the band's song "Beast of burden" from their 1978 album "Some girl" in Las Vegas, reports
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Paris Hilton plans her own Vegas club - 01 Jan 2008
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Peaches Geldof's snap 15-minute wedding with rocker beau in L A - 01 Jan 2008
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Peaches Geldof jets off for showdown talks with dad - minus the ring - 01 Jan 2008
London, Aug 16 (ANI): British socialite Peaches Geldof jetted out to join her dad Sir Bob Geldof on a holiday - for talks about her shock marriage to US rocker Max Drummey in Las Vegas. Peaches, 19, was seen boarding a plane
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WILMINGTON, Del. (CBSNewYork/AP) — Authorities said a New Jersey man is in critical condition following an argument over a seat at a blackjack table at a Delaware casino.
Delaware State Police said the 48-year-old Sewell, N.J., victim got into a fight with another man at the Delaware Park Casino in Wilmington about 11:30 p.m. Thursday. The victim and Edwin Mitchell of Wilmington continued arguing outside, where Mitchell punched the victim in the face.
Police said Mitchell then struck the victim another four times, causing him to fall and strike his head on a concrete sidewalk.
The victim was taken to a hospital where he was in critical condition.
Mitchell was apprehended by casino security, and has been arrested and charged with.)
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By Jason Keidel
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With all the sound and fury of an election year rattling around us, it’s fitting that a flaming debate rages over our region. And while gridirons from Cortland to East Rutherford comprise the stage, the story cuts along religious, philosophical, and anthropological lines.
It’s probably safe to say that the Jets have only employed one player born in Makati City, Philippines, that hotbed of football gods. Ironic, indeed, that the man seen as the emblem of Americana wasn’t even born in the United States.
Such is the mystery surrounding Tim Tebow, who has been remanded to that rare vocational desert of “football player” – often a euphemism for someone who doesn’t have a position. Is he a QB or RB or TE?
The Steelers had someone like that. Kordell Stewart wasn’t quite good enough to play quarterback exclusively, so “Slash” was born. And thus Stewart became a notable – and pretty successful – hybrid offensive threat. The Steelers employed a kind of shell game where he would line up at several positions but wouldn’t necessarily end up there, scampering behind the line before the snap. He didn’t win my beloved black & gold a Lombardi Trophy, but we came close.
Does anyone see Tebow coming close? Yes. And that conclusion is based on some strange variables. Earlier this week, a caller blasted Joe and Even for daring to doubt Tebow’s qualifications as a starting quarterback, citing his glory Gator days.
There are too many Heisman winners on the NFL scrap heap – legends like Eric Crouch, Andre Ware, Gino Torretta, Troy Smith, Chris Weinke, and Danny Wuerffel – to call that Saturday award a precursor to Sunday greatness. Tebow doesn’t even complete 50 percent of his passes, yet it is blatant sacrilege to mention that to Tebow’s growing congregation.
And when you look at Tebowmania last year, Denver’s resurgence was based on an odd confluence of circumstances, from botched kicks to bizarre fumbles. Tebow’s devotees will say that’s all part of the package, the divinity and karmic goodness of the man with God on speed dial. He is so omnipotent that he can will the other team to loss as much as guide his own to victory.
Part of being a rabid fan of any club means toeing the line between excuses and reasons. The Packers didn’t beat my beloved black & gold in the Super Bowl; Rashard Mendenhall fumbled it away. Dallas didn’t beat us back in ’95; Neil O’Donnell threw it away. And thus the same logic applies to the AFC playoffs last year. Denver didn’t whip us; my Pro Bowl QB (Big Ben) and All-Pro center (Pouncey) could hardly walk all week.
Yet there was Tebow, heaving knuckleballs until overtime, where he found his unattended tight end sprinting across the middle, and laying a pillow into the receiver’s bosom before he sprinted to paydirt. It was hard to explain, and I won’t try.
And thus there’s Tim Tebow the man, even more powerful than his football persona. We often hear of players on a mission, but with Tebow the term is literal. He is just as likely to tour the world to feed sick kids, or parachute into a prison to preach the Gospel. He’s painfully polite, and yet he’s the perfect avatar of the human condition: a man bred to peace yet finds his peace in the war zone of a football field, where violence rules and prison metaphors abound.
And perhaps that’s why so many people find him so polarizing: he makes us hold a metaphysical mirror up to ourselves. He wears his faith on his face, forcing us to examine not just ourselves but the power of the modern athlete. Is it fair for Tebow, or anyone, to use his status to promote an agenda? No one questions his right to say what he pleases, and his crusade is wholly nonviolent. And considering the many reasons big athletes bogart the bold ink, Tebow’s headlines are infinitely more innocuous.
Of course, he isn’t an innocent bystander in all of this. Tebow understands his power and uses it deftly to steer the attention toward his quiver of causes. Not even the Paparazzi –perfectly sculpted and smoothed for our MTV, ADD-ravaged culture of instant pleasure – can find dirt under Tebow’s fingernails.
And on the rare occasion that gossip and gridiron collide, it’s normally the province of players of some renown, like Tom Brady, who happened to dump a movie star for a supermodel, inviting the glare on himself.
But Tim Tebow is an anomaly in almost every way we can imagine. He doesn’t come close to fitting the pop icon template: a reckless, feckless miscreant who drinks, drugs, swears his way onto the police blotter. He’s a virgin, for goodness sake. But type his name into Google and you find the qualifiers “Virgin” and “Hoboken” and “Girlfriend” and “Northport” and “Twitter” and “Gay” before you finally arrive at “Stats.”
There are fanatics on both sides of the issue. There is a strong, secular block of our population – particularly in New York City – who shiver at the mere mention of religion, particularly Christianity. They hate Tebow the man, and always will.
Then you have Tebow’s Twitter flock – an interesting stew of people. Most are benign, yet some are so rabid that I had to block them from my social networks after the tenth time they told me about Tebow’s latest, luminous endeavor, followed by yet another invitation to bible study. Yes, there are loons everywhere, even under the guise of goodness. To them, If you dare question his skills at quarterback, backed with facts, you’re a hater – even if you express a healthy admiration for the man, his ethos and ethics, his blue-collar approach to his job and bruising style and disregard for his Hollywood handsomeness while he crashes into yet another linebacker. So, yes, you can’t win either way.
As admirable as Tebow is personally, there is ample data to suggest he’s not a starting NFL quarterback. But if he is able to summon the surrounding mayhem on the opposing sidelines, as he did last year, perhaps he doesn’t need to.
The Jets were the last team he needed to join. And yet they were the best team. You have Rex Ryan, who curses like a liquored up ensign, next to the quintessential choirboy. These are the contradictions that make Tebow and the Jets so flawed and so fascinating. No matter where they finish in the standings, they won’t be boring.
Tim Tebow is the rare player larger than football, larger than sports. Some of it is accidental; the rest is occidental, even for a guy born in the Philippines.
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HBO today announced what many fans already knew: Girls will be back for a third season. The pay-cable network has ordered 12 more episodes.
Lena Dunham, Girls' creator and one of its stars, mentioned the third season earlier this week on Alec Baldwin's WNYC podcast.
The series, which follows the lives of young women in New York, recently won a Golden Globe for best comedy, and Dunham was named best actress in a comedy. Girls also won an Emmy last fall for casting for a comedy series.
The second season premiere on Jan. 13, which drew 866,000 for its initial showing, has now attracted a gross audience of 3.8 million viewers. Sunday's second episode drew 572,000 for its first broadcast.
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Mets hope to shut down D-backs' speed game
The Mets open a series with the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday at Citi Field, and they'll have to watch out for what Arizona can do on the basepaths. The D-backs lead the National League with 23 stolen bases this season.
D-backs outfielder Gerardo Parra leads the charge with eight swiped bags, tied for fourth in the NL.
Mets catcher Josh Thole had a nice night behind the plate on Tuesday, throwing out two of four Houston runners attempting to steal bases, but he couldn't catch Jordan Schafer on Wednesday afternoon, allowing him to steal second base in the first inning. Thole has thrown out just six of 23 runners attempting to steal on the season.
The Mets haven't been a prolific base-stealing team themselves, with David Wright leading the team with three stolen bases. And, Arizona catcher Miguel Montero has allowed just five of 11 runners to steal on him this season.
Trying to keep the D-backs from running all over the place in the series opener on Friday will be Mets starter Dillon Gee. The Mets right-hander is 2-2 so far this season, with a 4.85 ERA. He's struck out at least five batters in each of his four starts this season.
Kicking off the series for Arizona will be rookie Wade Miley, who has appeared in five games this season but started just two. In those two starts, though, Miley has been almost untouchable. He's allowed no earned runs on just three hits and three walks in 12 1/3 innings. He's struck out 13 batters in the two starts.
Miley was named the NL's Rookie of the Month for April on Wednesday.
D-backs: Breslow stranding runners
With the D-backs up, 4-3, in the eighth inning Wednesday night against the Nationals, Craig Breslow entered the game with runners on first and second with no outs.
He then proceeded to get Adam LaRoche to fly out to right field, then struck out Jesus Flores and Danny Espinosa to end the frame.
has a 2.19 ERA in 11 games and just two of eight runners he's inherited have scored this year.
Mets: Santana progressing nicely
Mets manager Terry Collins said he was very pleased with how Johan Santana -- who is scheduled to start for the Mets on Saturday -- has returned from his shoulder injury.
"Obviously, because he's Johan Santana, there were expectations," Collins said. "But due to the seriousness of the injury that he had, and the operation, everybody was hoping we were going to get quality innings out of him. And he's gone above and beyond it all. I said in Spring Training that if anybody can come back from this, he'd be the guy. And he has."
With their loss in Houston on Wednesday, the Mets were swept for the first time this season. They had been involved in sweeps twice prior to the series with the Astros, sweeping the Braves to open the season, and sweeping the Marlins later in April.
Worth noting
Wright has hit .266 against the D-backs over the course of his career, but he has hit more home runs against Arizona (12) than any other team not from the National League East.
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Nationals Press Release
Nationals reinstate RHP Henry Rodriguez, place RHP Chien-Ming Wang on 15-day disabled list
The Washington Nationals today placed right-handed pitcher Chien-Ming Wang on the 15-Day Disabled List, retroactive to July 1, with a right hip strain and returned from rehab and reinstated right-handed pitcher Henry Rodriguez from the DL. Nationals Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations and General Manager Mike Rizzo made the announcement.
Rodriguez was 1-3 with nine saves and a 5.14 ERA in 24 appearances this season with Washington before being placed on the 15-Day Disabled List on June 7 (retroactive to June 6) with a right index finger injury.
In seven rehab appearances with Triple-A Syracuse (four games) and Double-A Harrisburg (three), Rodriguez worked 7.0 no-hit scoreless innings, walking five and striking out seven. He last pitched on Sunday, fanning one in 1.0 perfect inning in Harrisburg’s 3-1 home win over Erie.
In 115 career appearances spanning portions of four big league seasons, Rodriguez has posted a 4.03 ERA (53 ER/118.1 IP) and struck out 9.9 batters per 9.0 innings pitched.
Wang, 32, is 2-3 with a 7.61 ERA in seven games/four starts for Washington this season. Wang missed the season’s first 42 games while recovering from a left hamstring injury suffered in Spring Training.
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Leonard's legacy is source of pride in Kansas City
Hurler strived to always go nine innings
Dennis Leonard had been signing autographs for two solid hours at All-Star Fanfest when he suddenly looked up and surveyed the flurry of activity going on all around him.
For a man who spent his entire 12-year Major League career with the Royals and makes his home in Kansas City, it was a rewarding scene that brought a big smile to Leonard's face.
"It's great to have Major League Baseball's big stage here in Kansas City," Leonard said. "As a former Royal and a Kansas Citian, it's exciting. Hopefully, we're going to have a lot more excitement revolving around baseball and the Royals franchise in the months and years ahead."
Leonard knows better than most how a contending Major League ballclub can light up the Kansas City community. As a sturdy right-hander who became known for finishing what he had started, Leonard was an integral part of the rise of the Royals in the mid-to-late 1970s. He's the only three-time 20-game winner in club history and finished his career with a 144-106 record and a 3.70 ERA. Modern-day starters could only marvel at the Leonard statistics which show that he had 103 complete games in 302 starts.
A Leonard day was often a holiday for the Royals' bullpen.
"I prepared myself to go nine innings," Leonard said. "As a starting pitcher, that was my job description. That was my goal every time I pitched."
Leonard came to prominence in 1975 when he finished 15-7 and established himself as a mainstay in the rotation. He had a solid team behind him, and the Royals took off as a perennial postseason club beginning in 1976. That season they got over the hump in the American League West by fending off the Oakland A's.
"There wasn't any 'me' or 'I' with those Royals teams," Leonard said. "Everybody was in it together. Being in the right place at the right time is everybody's dream. For me, playing for the Royals at that time was it."
The Royals reached the playoffs three straight years against the Yankees from 1976 to 1978, only to be turned back. In 1977, when Kansas City won 102 games, Leonard had what was statistically his greatest season. He finished 20-12 with a 3.04 earned run average and completed 21 of his 37 starts. He finished fourth in the American League Cy Young Award balloting.
"Certainly, it was disappointing to lose to the Yankees three straight years in the playoffs," Leonard said. "But our franchise was among the best in baseball, and it sure was gratifying when he finally beat the Yankees in 1980 and got to our first World Series."
Leonard won a World Series game against the Phillies, but Philadelphia claimed the big prize. By the time the Royals got back to the World Series in 1985, Leonard's career had been derailed because of knee injuries.
"I was actually on the bench the first two home games against the Cardinals," Leonard recalled. "But rather than accompany the ballclub to St. Louis, I needed to go to Florida for a little more rehabilitation to get ready for the 1986 season. Our guys put it all together and I couldn't have been more proud of the way they battled back to become world champions."
After four operations and countless hours of rehab, Leonard enjoyed a day of extreme personal satisfaction early in the 1986 season. Left-hander Danny Jackson got hurt, and Leonard stepped in as the Saturday starter against Toronto in a nationally televised game. Leonard wound up throwing a three-hit shutout as the Royals prevailed 1-0.
"From a personal standpoint, that game stands out," Leonard said. "I knew what I had put into it after basically missing three years. I had to convince myself mentally that when I put weight on that left knee, it wasn't going to blow up."
Leonard retired after the '86 season and was inducted into the Royals Hall of Fame in 1989. His legacy revolves around reliability and durability in an era when top-of-the-rotation starters took great pride in working deep into games regardless of pitch count.
"I could go nine innings with 125 or 130 pitches," Leonard said. "Nowadays, starting pitchers are rarely even given an opportunity to complete a game. They get to a certain pitch count in the sixth or seventh and that's it. It didn't work that way in my era.
"When the manager or pitching coach came out and asked how you felt, you just said 'I'm fine.' Pitch count was never part of the equation. I always felt it was my game to win or lose. That was always my mindset."
Robert Falkoff is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
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Editorial
Shared insurance payments a healthy sign for Westchester employees
Photo credit: Rory Glaeseman | The Westchester County Jail in Valhalla. (Feb. 8, 2012)
By agreeing to pay a percentage of their health care costs, Westchester County correction officers are showing that they understand an important reality: Taxpayers shouldn’t bear the entire burden for public workers while they also pay for their own skyrocketing plans.
Especially not when the county is paying $140 million on health care for all of its workers and struggling to cover core services like bus routes, control spiraling costs of pensions and keep tax increases below the state’s property tax cap.
With 690 members, the Westchester Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association is the county’s second-largest union. So it sends a clear message to the other five unions in contract talks — notably the Civil Service Employees Association, the largest — that health care contributions are a critical piece of negotiations.
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County Executive Rob Astorino has pushed for health insurance contributions from union workers since he took office. Nonunion workers, including Astorino, commissioners and some legislators, have been contributing to their own plans since 2010.
The 12.5 percent contribution is no small concession for correction officers — who work in the county jail — when you consider that it could cost them anywhere from roughly $1,000 a year for single coverage and $2,600 for family. But the deal also guarantees raises through 2015 — 3 percent retroactive for each of the past two years and 2.5 percent each year going forward.
And it includes a $100 increase in longevity pay, which translates to about $3,000 to $3,700 extra every year, depending on seniority.
It’s a fair deal and lawmakers should ratify it.
Another aspect of the agreement also escalates health care contributions to 15 percent by 2015 and requires new employees, whose starting salaries would be less, to pay 20 percent. The officers work at the Westchester County jail in Valhalla.
In announcing the deal earlier this week, Astorino and union president Alonzo West described a tough give-and-take between both sides and said that in the end the agreement was fair to union members and taxpayers.
The tentative agreement will go before the Board of Legislators for approval.
This contract comes six weeks after the county executive reached a similar agreement in which Teamsters Local 456, which represents about 120 county managers, will get raises and contribute to health care costs.
Astorino, who has repeatedly uttered his jobs-for-savings mantra, still has his work cut out for him with other negotiations. So do the unions.
But workers paying a percentage of their premiums is a healthy prescription for taxpayers.
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Corbin debuts vs. veteran Buehrle in Miami finale
For Mark Buehrle, a 33-year-old veteran who has pretty much done it all and seen it all in 13 Major League seasons, Monday's game is another opportunity to get his Marlins career on the right track in his fifth start of the season.
Corbin arrived in Miami on Sunday fresh off a lights-out four-start performance at Double-A Mobile, but because he was not yet on the D-backs' 25-man roster, he had to watch the game from the stands with general manager Kevin Towers.
On Monday, he will be smack in the middle of the action.
"It's showtime," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said Sunday. "It's a very exciting time whenever you're making your Major League debut. It's what you dream about, it's what you work hard for. It's what you earn, you earn the opportunity."
Corbin got the opportunity thanks to a strong Spring Training and a 2-0 record and 1.67 ERA through his first four starts at Mobile.
Buehrle comes off a hard-luck loss in New York against the Mets, where he gave up two runs on five hits in seven innings in a 5-1 Marlins defeat. Buehrle is 1-3 with a 2.63 ERA this season after signing with the Marlins in the offseason.
After winning 161 games and pitching two no-hitters, including a perfect game, in 12 seasons with the White Sox, Buehrle has pitched well with little to show for it this season.
The veteran has gone at least six innings in all four of his starts, and his lone win was on April 18, when he gave up one run in eight innings against the Cubs at Marlins Park.
D-backs: Hill extends on-base streak
Aaron Hill had two hits Sunday and now has reached base safely in 17 straight games and 19 of 21 overall.
A D-backs victory Monday would give them their first series win since they took two of three from the Padres April 10-12. They won their first two series of the year, then dropped four straight.
Marlins: Multiple walk-offs for Ramirez
Hanley Ramirez's game-winning hit in Saturday's 3-2 Marlins victory was his second walk-off hit of the season. He also had one April 15 against Houston. Going into Sunday's games, Ramirez was the only player in the Major League with two walk-off hits this season. It marked his third career game-ending hit, with the other on Aug. 7, 2010.
Worth noting
The D-backs are the lone team in the National League West that Buehrle has never faced.
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Leon! Chris! Zombies! Ashley?
A couple of days have passed since Capcom announced Resident Evil 6 and unleashed a trailer that left us all wanting to know more about the latest addition to the immensely popular series.
Big game announcements deserve special treatmeant, and they don’t come much bigger than Resident Evil 6. With that in mind, myself and Aaron got together to analyse the announcement trailer, and discuss what Capcom might deliver in terms of gameplay (and more) when the game launches on November 20th.
We hope you enjoy the video, and be sure to share your thoughts via the comments section below.
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The Aboriginal Memorial
Introduction | History | Artists & Clans | Arnhem land | Stories
Arnhem land
waterholes | beaches | forests | jungle | mangroves | plains | flora and fauna
'We Yolngu belong to different barpurru [clan groups] and each barpurru paints things differently; it depends if you come from the gulunbuy [mangroves] or diltjipuy [forests] or rangipuy [beach]. It's important to know the difference and we need to teach the young people to paint in this way because they don't know. I teach them by painting a picture so they learn to see the difference.' Artist George Malibirr.
Stretching from the East Alligator River in the Northern Territory to the Gulf of Carpentaria, Arnhem Land covers an area of some 150,000 square kilometres. It was declared a reserve for Aboriginal people in 1931. Today Arnhem Land is owned by Aboriginal people under Commonwealth laws.
In Arnhem Land, the right to paint is usually inherited patrilineally. although many artists paint their mother's story too. The designs on the hollow logs in the Memorial are the same themes that these artists paint on bark and on people's bodies in ceremony.
Several remote communities — some of which began as missions, others as government settlements — are spread through the region. Ramingining township has a population of approximately 1,000, including the small populations in surrounding outstations. Whilst Arnhem Land people (who in the central and eastern areas refer to themselves collectively as Yolngu, meaning human beings) have adopted some elements of European culture, they also continue their traditional practices, including ceremonial activity.
The waterhole — Gulun beaches and oceans — Rangi/Monuk
Historically, beaches and oceans have featured in many people's cultures as sites of creation, beginnings and hedonistic pleasure. The forebears of Aboriginal people crossed the ocean to Australian shores in simple water craft at least 60,000 years ago. Indigenous religious beliefs around the continent tell of creator ancestors that came from across the sea to bring life and order and to populate the land. In the north, for example, the Djan'kawu trio of creator ancestors came from the sun (east) to bring life to the land of the Arnhem Land clans. On their ocean voyages they discovered, named and brought to life the various eco-systems they encountered. The movement and life cycle of sea creatures, turtles, whales and various fish and shell fish species were recorded by them in litanies of song and dance cycles.
Just as present-day Australians live in greater numbers near the coast, so Aboriginal populations have historically been larger along the continental shoreline where a wealth of food and other resources allowed for a more comfortable lifestyle.
The forests — Diltji
Central Arnhem Land, surrounding the Glyde River valley, is a place of seemingly endless savanna and eucalyptus forests. Much of the Yolngu creation beliefs are 'born' in these forests. Both the Dhuwa and Yirritja Honey Spirits moved through and animated the wooded landscape searching for honey. They saw and named the various species of animal, bird, plant and insect life in their journeys.
The people of the forest create works of art out of this environment. Most bark paintings and sculpture of Yolngu artists from this area are vertical in orientation, and dictated as much by the medium of bark as artistic design. The vertical trunks, and art works, are emblematic of the human frame.
The spiritual nature of the forests is deeply rooted in Yolngu society. The English word forest, meaning an area of land covered by trees, comes from the Latin foris meaning the place outside the door, the wild dangerous land outside the fence. The Djambarrpuyngu word diltji also means a tree-covered landscape but, more importantly, means backbone, the backbone of the kangaroo, the frame which supports life.
The jungle — Retja
Jungles are uncultivated, densely grown, tangled mazes of tropical and sub-tropical forest, now often referred to as rainforests. To Europeans, they represented the unordered and primitive places and people of distant colonial lands. Generally the jungle was imagined to be either a hellish enigma or a romantic paradise. The English word jungle really comes from the Hindi word jangal, or from the Sanskrit jangala.
Around Ramingining are little pockets of jungle, sometimes nourished by springs, which are thought of as spiritual places for Yolngu people; Garrkman, a Frog Spirit, belongs to one place, Karr, a Spider Spirit, to another and spirits associated with Barnumbirr the Morning Star to another. Secreted in escarpment ravines along the sides of the Arafura Swamp are a further series of palm fringed sites. They are sacred places, and rich sources of bark for making string, fruits, small game mammals and birds such as the jungle fowl.
The mangroves — Larrtha
Although most common along the tropical coastline, mangroves grow in many areas around the Australian continent. The mangrove zone is that coastal belt where the land meets the sea in a tract of trees and mud flats down to the low waterline. In the Glyde River region, an important life creating area for many natural species, the Djan'kawu creator ancestors hunted in and animated these environments and gave birth to the first Manyarrngu and Liyagawumirr people. The Manyarrngu people's name actually means the people from the manyarr (mangrove) trees. The Liyagawumirr people come from the head of the river, the mangrove tidal mud flats.
Interestingly, the European word mangrove really comes, through various transitions, from the Haitian Arawak Indian 'mangle'(describing the tree roots) which was adopted by the Spanish who went there in the 1600s.
The plains — Ninydjiya
Early European settlers often wrote poems about the grand vista across the vast Australian plains, attempting to describe the new, strange, unfathomable landscape they encountered in coming to the southern continent. Yolngu song cycles describe how the original creator ancestors moved across the open plains, seeing, naming, and creating particular sites of personal reference for their descendants — constructing a matrix of experiences, intimate observations and artistic images. The Yolngu word ninydjiya, meaning a clear open space, is also applied in a personal way to describe the bald heads of aging men.
These tropical flood plains are lush with vegetation in the monsoon season, the grass often growing over two metres high. Their flooding allows Yolngu to spear fish on the open plains. The dry seasons are a complete contrast: grasses are fired for hunting drives and the land becomes bare with a sparse spread of leftover blackened stubble, which eventually returns to green.
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The radiant interiors of the 1950s and 1960s did not suddenly appear without some background of concentrated attention. Apart from early sketchbook drawings and small bedrooms painted decades earlier, Cossington Smith experimented with the subject again in the 1940s. Her solo exhibition at Macquarie Galleries in 1947 included no less than ten interiors. The significance of these smaller interiors resides in the opportunities they opened up for the artist to experiment, and in their sense of return – like a persistent undercurrent in a musical score, finally rising up as a presence to be reckoned with.
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Early Bird Gets the Worm
Photo and caption by Renee Little
Young birds nest in the tranquility of Ojo Caliente Hot Springs in New Mexico.
Location: Ojo Caliente, New Mexico
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Apparently the only place in town where homeboy could buy a new blazer was closed because every employee had the flu. And that’s how he ended up with that ridiculous thing which is about three sizes too big. Sucks for him.
Oh, and if you must wear a mandarin collar, leave the tie at home. I mean, would a double amputee wear socks? Exactly.
(Source: thehouseofpurplecouture)
Paris Street Style During Fashion Week.
I’m going with two hours. Two hours in that it took this schmuck on wheels two hours to get dressed that particular morning. Everything about this kit is so meticulously and perfectly disheveled, it’s like the anti-sprezzatura. Are you kidding me with the sleeves peeking from the cardigan peeking from the jacket? Do the laws of physics cease to exist on his forearms? And what about those socks? No one in the world should be allowed to pull such a stunt unless protecting oneself from ticks while hiking or playing organized baseball, DAS IT!!
While we’re on the subject
I remember reading a bunch of blurbs and articles about Jamie Hince’s powder blue YSL suit being the epitome of “rocker cool” and while I don’t disagree, I think Mark Ronson’s combination of a red shawl-collared jacket and leopard print tie somehow feels less forced and definitely looks more “cool”
Mark got mud in his tires. And, sometimes, he gets his style inspiration from Vinny Gambini.
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What is it about the local Lib Dems that means they seem to want to falsely claim credit. I know it must be hard in opposition but this sort of falsehoods don’t fool anyone.
This is the sort of thing that children do and makes the Lib Dems look foolish and untrustworthy. Deceit in any politician is very bad so when a party seems to think this is a good electioneering stance no wonder the public lose faith.
Only last month the Lib Dems claimed to have delivered the new Cambridge station. This was an outrageous claim that even some of the Lib Dems felt uncomforable about. And then they do it again.
The recent scam is for the Lib Dems to claim “Lib Dems win £90m for roads and pavements”. This is complete fabrication. Worse the leaflet then goes on to claim that Labour don’t back the plan.
So what is the reality? The County Council, led by my Conservative Cabinet, took the decision to invest additional sums in our roads. Why? Well, as a back bencher I spent time on the management team looking after the highways contract. I was concerned that the roads might deteriorate under the rate of funding and I know that we all value our road network. I asked for some modeling to be undertaken which confirmed additional capital spending was required. So when I became leader I was able to convince colleagues that this would be a sensible insertion into our budget for this year.
So the Lib Dems had NO influence, NO decision making and were not consulted.
I have a difference of opinion with Labour on many things but it is increasingly difficult to trust the Lib Dems on anything.
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This is brilliant! Just like the Lib Dems in my area. They claimed a ‘victory’ for something locally that the Labour party won!
Great article. I hope to keep reading your blog.
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friday feature: andrea fazzari
One avenue of photography I've always been envious of is travel photography. To be able to eat and shoot your way through country after country would be unreal.
Andréa Fazzari has that job. Manhattan-born Fazzari has been traveling the world shooting for clients such as Travel & Leisure, Vanity Fair, Gourmet, GQ and more. She has stayed at the most luxurious hotels, eaten in forgotten countries and photographed the most interesting characters.
Now she is sharing her travel tips and experiences with you on her brand-new (re-design launched today) blog, Fazzari Traveler.
Oh yah... not only is she brilliant with a camera, but she also speaks French and Italian.
Here is our interview, for you:
01. Where have you been the past month or two?
I have been in India (Delhi, Agra, and Jaipur), Italy (Sardegna, Venice and Florence) and Spain (Seville).
02. What equipment did you start with? What equipment do you use now?
I started with a Hasselblad and the Pentax 67, which I still use today. I'm a minimalist with my equipment and I adore my camera and lenses!
03. How has your experience in the fashion industry influenced your photographs?
I started as an advertising assistant for Giorgio Armani out of college. That was my first job! Then I did public relations for Dolce & Gabbana here in NYC. I was interested in fashion, art, photography and design, so I knew I wanted to work in fashion once I graduated from college, but didn't think I would/could be a photographer. Being someone who is constantly observing and aware of aesthetics and details, I realize that fashion was just a good stop on the way to becoming a photographer and working for myself. I don't think the industry in and of itself influenced my pictures; it was my life experience that helped shape my interests and led me more specifically to photography.
04. Traveling all the time must get exhausting -how do you do it?
The only time it can be a little bit tiring or taxing is dealing with certain airports and going through security. Jet lag doesn't affect me too much; coming back from Asia is the most difficult, but I just give in to the fatigue and sleep a lot when I return. I have a certain rhythmn and formula for when I travel; I am very used to functioning in in this way and moving around a lot. I actually thrive on it and find it exhilerating...especially when I go to a country I've never been to before. There's nothing like the feeling of new discovery!
05. Meeting and photographing lots of strangers could be very intimidating for most people -has it ever been for you? What do you say to strangers who you'd like to photograph?
No, it is not intimidating for me. I find it exciting. 9.5 out of ten people say yes! When I do approach someone to ask if I can shoot them, I tell them my name, where I am from, what kind of story I am shooting and for whom, that I would like to shoot them and why.......people do detect my sincere interest, and make it happen! I've had some wonderful experiences with some interesting people. People usually get quite excited by being asked.
06. Aside from traveling, where else do you find inspiration?
In films...lots of films. I keep an ongoing list of favorite films from around the world.
Places inspire and / or spectacular views; certain people inspire me a lot for how they look, behave, or how they live. I like observing how people carry themselves and understanding what makes them tick.
07. Where is your favorite place to visit? Sleep? Eat? Relax?
I have too many favorite places, and can never single out one!!
I recently relaxed in Laos...it's very slow there. Bali was very relaxing too...the sounds of the animals and the rain were enchanting. I'm not sure that I relax in a particular or typical way in NYC. I love Asian food mostly - Vietnamese, Japanese, Cambodian, Laotian....but also enjoy eating in Argentina and Brazil....I'm open to many cuisines!
08. Do you have moments -when traveling or shooting- that make you think "I have the best job in the world?"
Yes, I think this way quite often. My work is quite emotional for me.
09. What do you do to keep your clients to continue to hire you time after time? What do you think you offer?
I think I offer elegant and sensual images which show my engagment with the world and reflect the fascination I have with different people and cultures...I like to transmit my excitement for the beauty in the world. I'm also very enthusiastic about my work, and that's always a good thing!
10. What is your most helpful travel tip?
Get Skype on your laptop and iPhone...it's the best and cheapest way to speak everyone...no matter where I am in the world.
Did you like this interview? Please leave a comment for Andréa.
Check back next week for our next Friday Feature with Aran Goyoaga.
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Great interview. What a life! It does seem like the ideal life. Photography, fashion, food, travel...sounds amazing. Really amazing pictures!
What a wonderful life!! And such talent!
Ah, what beautiful photos she's produced! They have such a romantic, deep, seriously gorgeous feel. This was a great interview! Thanks, Andrea & Nicole.
Wonderful and intriguing! Thank you for sharing.
I really enjoyed reading this interview. I guess since I love to travel.
What wonderful pictures. Thanks for this inside look at such an interesting lifestyle/work.
I loved this feature!
I also loved how her equipment list was not huge. And that her first job was with Giorgio Armani!
I love every one of those images. They are stunning, and Andrea is fascinating. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing Andrea, your photographs are so stunning.
how wonderful. (the last picture is breathtaking.)
I loved this interview! I am currently living overseas, traveling every few weeks/months, and speak french and italian as well. I love being creative and have interned in fashion the past two years. I am now looking for a way to put all these interests together and I was so glad to see that she did!!!
wow! she is an AMAZING photographer. her work is very poignant and her career is definitely enviable.
I am living vicariously through these images...dreamy!
I looked at the photos before reading and learning she's a travel photographer, and before I knew that I thought, "Wow, these are so exotic!" Lovely interview, as always.
my favorite interview yet! her description of her photographic style shines through in her work and echo my own reasons for falling in love with travel photography.
I love this interview most perhaps because her life is what I thrive for. Fantastic pictures, she is very inspirational.
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Nothing is more depressing than a Gooner who can’t swim drown in yesterday’s blue sea that flooded King’s Road and Fulham Road. Still, it could be worse. You could be a Spurs fan.
That aside, snaps of yesterday’s Chelsea FC parade celebrating their FA Cup and Champions League victories are now up on Kingroad.co.uk’s Facebook page.
Congrats to Blues!
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Support Links
Underscoring its commitment to the growing population of cancer survivors, OCS launched a newly designed Web site in late 1999. The site can be reached at NCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences' homepage: by clicking on the "Survivorship Research" button.
Researchers, clinicians, and survivors and their families are able to communicate directly with NCI staff through the Web site. Consumers will also learn how to become involved in the research direction and oversight process. In addition, the user-friendly site has a resource list of programs for survivors that will expand over the next year, and includes links to related articles, data, and press releases.
OCS sponsored workshops in 1998 and 1999, bringing together experts on the medical and psychosocial aspects of cancer survivorship to help educate researchers, clinicians, and consumers about the impact of cancer on patients and families after treatment ends, and to stimulate new research.
In addition, OCS is collaborating with other NCI researchers in a working group on diet, weight, and physical activity to review the state of the science in these key areas and develop recommendations to address research needs and priorities.
Rowland, who had been on the faculty of Georgetown University, became director of OCS in September 1999. Founding director of the office, Anna Meadows, M.D., who served part-time since the establishment of the office in June 1996, has returned to academia at the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Rowland received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Columbia University Teachers College and served a post doctoral fellowship in the Psychiatry Service, Department of Neurology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center from 1984-86. She later joined Memorial's attending staff and helped establish, and became the first director of, their post-treatment research program, a ground-breaking center for providing non-medical services to cancer survivors and their families. Most recently, she served as an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Georgetown University School of Medicine, where she established the Psychooncology Program. She has conducted extensive research on the psychological, social, and sexual effects of breast cancer on survivors, and was co-editor of the first textbook of psychooncology, with Jimmie Holland, M.D., entitled Handbook of Psychooncology.
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Nitroed, what does it mean? The short answer, Nitroed refers to ”Redneck Engineering” at its best.
How did we come up with this? I am one of those “Redneck Engineers”, who is always coming up with some screwball way of fixing something, or making something work. My boss told me one day that my ideas reminded him of the character “Nitro” from the movie “Down Periscope”. Nitro was the electrician on a submarine, that had a few issues with electricity, but he was always able to get the radio working when the Captain needed it. Usually by licking his fingers and grabbing wires, using his body to complete the circuit. Well, from that point on, my new nickname was Nitro, and every time I “Redneck Engineered” something, we said that I “Nitroed it.”
This site is going to be a collection of the best Nitro jobs that I have done.
Happy Nitroing
-Nitro
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Many years ago a critic at the New York Times astutely proclaimed, “There are really only two movies in the history of American cinema – Gone With The Wind, and everything else!” And while this reviewer could argue that there have been many fine films produced in the interim to challenge Gone With The Wind’s status quo as the greatest motion picture ever made, I would probably have to concur that none of its rivals has managed to topple the perennial love audiences continue to have for David O. Selznick’s glorious epic.
There’s just something hypnotic and compelling about this film, from its opening titles sweeping across in vivid Technicolor to Scarlett’s final affirmation to win Rhett Butler back someday, Gone With The Wind is the reason I fell in love with movies in the first place. And in my one hundred plus viewings of the movie I have yet to grow weary of its spellbinding magic, its quaintly fictional depiction of ‘cavaliers and cotton fields, of knights and their ladies fair’ or of Rhett’s caustic “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.”
It all seems to fit so neatly together, so perfectly realized with not a scene or a nuance to spare, that in hindsight it’s quite easy to forget Gone With The Wind came out of an atmosphere of blind chaos and great good luck. For its time it was a movie unlike any other, and since that time it had transcended mere celluloid to become a much beloved snapshot of two ancient flowers; the old south, and the more sadly missed studio system that once belonged exclusively to Hollywood. As such viewing Gone With The Wind today is like sharing reminiscences with an old friend; historically flawed and overly sentimental – perhaps – but ultimately nourishing to the soul.
Had author Margaret Mitchell known how influential and lasting her one contribution to American literature would become she might not have written it at all. Mitchell was a recluse who enjoyed her modest career as a writer on the Atlanta Journal. But a fall from a horse made her an invalid for some time, during which she became bored and wrote the first draft of a novel she never intended to publish. It was just something to keep her busy, keep the mind keen for words. And truth be told, even after the book became the number one seller in the land nobody in Hollywood much cared to transpose it to film.
Perhaps it was the period – civil war pictures were ‘box office poison’ then…or so it was widely believed. And the material itself was little more than a flawed romance between two people. Worse, the very un-happy ending in the book was completely at odds with Hollywood’s idea of the ‘happy ending’ audiences craved. No - it was just too, too risky. Gone With The Wind was too long to be successfully brought to the screen in under two hours. It had too many frank depictions of slavery that could so easily be misconstrued by the black press as Uncle Tomism reborn. To do justice to the novel meant a rewrite of the narrative conventions that Hollywood had perfected on celluloid. It was a disaster waiting to happen should any filmmaker be so bold to try.
But David O. Selznick was just such a mogul; brash and fastidious. Yet, even he wanted no part of Gone With The Wind…at first. Thankfully, Selznick had an acquisitions secretary – Kay Brown – who, like the rest of the country, had fallen under the novel’s spell. Clinching the deal for $50,000 (the most ever paid to an author in that time), Selznick set about unravelling the immersive headache that would become his Gone With The Wind.
To hedge his bets, Selznick only hired the best: screen dramatist Sidney Howard to adapt the novel; William Cameron Menzies for production design, Max Steiner to underscore the drama with his inimitable genius. He even bargained with his father-in-law, Louis B. Mayer for the loan out of MGM’s top male star – Clark Gable – after it was unanimously agreed that the public would accept no other as their Rhett Butler. But there was one hurdle yet to overcome – finding an actress to ‘be’ Scarlett O’Hara. Hundreds of actresses tried in an endless barrage of screen test. None impressed Selznick.
Ah, but then came the dark horse to save the day – Vivien Leigh – a transplant from Great Britain, moved into a fashionable bungalow with her lover, Laurence Olivier who was, in fact, signed on with Selznick’s brother, Myron as his Hollywood agent. Her timing could not have been more perfect.
Sidney Howard’s screenplay kept the flavour of Margaret Mitchell’s novel without remaining literally faithful to it and that proved all the more successful as principle photography began. Selznick kept tight reigns on the production, though not its budget, spending lavishly to ensure that Gone With The Wind became a cinematic masterpiece to top all the rest that had gone before it. His unerring perfectionism is on display in virtually every scene.
But there was hell to pay along the road to Tara. Several weeks into the shoot, Selznick fired long-time friend and collaborator George Cukor, replacing him with director Victor Fleming, who would suffer a nervous breakdown midway through the lengthy shooting schedule. With mere weeks left in the schedule, Selznick was threatened with bankruptcy, and in order to meet the Atlanta world premiere he and his editor Hal Kern spent 23 hr. sessions in the editing room, chronically hopped up on Benzedrine to get the job done.
Plot wise: Spoiled southern belle Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh) is enamoured with Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard) – the son of a wealthier neighbouring plantation owner. Scarlett’s father, Gerald is unimpressed by his daughter’s choice in men. Moreover, he has been assured that Ashley will marry his cousin, Melanie Hamilton (Olivia De Havilland) by the end of summer, thus thwarting Scarlett’s infatuation once and for all.
At a party given at the Wilkes’ estate, Twelve Oaks, Scarlett meets Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), a playful scallywag who isn’t received by any descent family in Charleston – not even his own. After the ladies have retired to their boudoir, the men engage in a discussion about the possibility of a civil war. Rhett encourages prudence and restraint; sentiments flying in the face of more garrulous gallantry, but firmly echoed by Ashley. War is declared and Ashley goes off to fight after marrying Melanie. To spite them both, Scarlett marries Melanie’s brother, Charles (Rand Brooks) who dies of fever shortly after the first battle.
Despite frequent admonishments from her housemaid, Mammie (Hattie McDaniel), Scarlett continues to defy the conventions of a widow. To comfort her daughter’s distress – and because she knows absolutely nothing about her passion for Ashley, Ellen O’Hara (Barbara O’Neill) sends Scarlett and a servant, Prissy (Butterfly McQueen) for an extended visit to the home of Melanie’s Aunt Pittypat (Laura Hope Crews) in Atlanta where Melanie is also staying, awaiting Ashley’s return.
At the Atlanta bazar Scarlet once again meets Rhett. His wily interests to possess her have not cooled. After shocking the confederacy by asking a war widow to dance, Scarlett and Rhett develop a fair-weather friendship, mostly predicated on Rhett lavishing her with gifts. Scarlett, however, is still madly pining for Ashley and this creates monumental friction between her and Rhett. Eventually, Rhett becomes a frequent guest of Belle Watling (Ona Munson); an Atlanta madam who has come to admire the man as something more than just a paying customer.
On leave, Ashley breaks his silence and tells Scarlett that he loves her fiery passion, but that duty alone will never allow him to be unfaithful to Melanie. To ease her sexual frustrations – and quite simply pass the time while Ashley is away at war – Scarlett joins Melanie as a relief nurse at the hospital. But after a particularly gruesome amputation, performed without the benefit of chloroform, Scarlett declares that she has had enough of death and dying and vows to go back home to Tara.
Melanie has Ashley’s baby and Rhett suggests to Scarlett that she will never find true happiness if she chooses to wait in hope that Ashley will return to abandon them both for her. As the Yankee armies advance on Atlanta, the rebels torch the city forcing Rhett, Scarlett, Melanie, Prissy and the baby to flee by carriage through the burning streets. At the crossroads, Rhett informs Scarlett that he has decided to join the army, forcing Scarlett to make the journey back to Tara without him. She arrives to discover her mother dead from fever, the once vibrant fields and house ravaged by army deserters and her father hopelessly mad, lost in his memories of that gentile time before the war.
Vowing to live through this ordeal, Scarlett and her sisters, Sue Ellen (Evelyn Keyes) and Careen (Ann Rutherford) barely manage to keep body and soul together. Scarlett learns that Rhett has been imprisoned for blockade running and rushes off to the jail in the hopes of procuring badly needed funds necessary to save Tara. Instead, she decides to marry Sue Ellen’s beaux, Frank Kennedy (Carroll Nyes) after learning he has managed to establish himself as a moderately successful hardware salesman. Lying to Frank that Sue Ellen has lost interest in him, Scarlett’s treason against her sister saves the farm. But her marriage is hardly a happy one.
After Scarlett is attacked while driving through a shanty town, Frank and Ashley resolve to uphold the gallantry of the old south by inflicting their own ‘southern’ justice on the rabble. In the conflict Frank is killed and Ashley severely wounded. Only Rhett manages to save the day and shortly thereafter Scarlett reluctantly agrees to marry him. The two have a relatively peaceful honeymoon. Rhett lavishes every absurdity on his new wife, even building her an ostentatious new mansion in the heart of Atlanta. Still, Scarlett is not satisfied. She bears Rhett’s a daughter, Bonnie Blue (Cammie King), then quietly informs him that she will never sleep with him again.
More angry than distraught, Rhett turns to Belle Watling’s. But she sends him back to his wife with some heartfelt advice; that his life must be focused on raising his daughter. As the years pass Scarlett and Rhett grow apart, brought back together only after Bonnie develops homesickness while visiting London with her father. Mammie is ecstatic to see them come home, and truth be told, Scarlett is also grateful for their return. But the years have dampened Rhett’s appreciation for his wife.
After Bonnie is killed in a horse riding accident, a distraught Rhett learns that Melanie is going to have another baby against her doctor’s advice. Throughout the story, Rhett has greatly admired Melanie, and, with her kindness recovers from his grief. But after Melanie dies from pregnancy complications Rhett witnesses Scarlett comforting Ashley and naturally assumes she will at long last ask him for a divorce.
Determined to beat Scarlett to the punch, Rhett goes home and packs. Although Scarlett has had a miraculous transference of her affections from Ashley to Rhett, his dreams of their life together are now truly dead. On the steps of their Atlanta mansion Scarlett vows to think of some way to reclaim her husband’s affections.
In lesser hands Gone With The Wind could so easily have degenerated into trite melodrama. But director Victor Fleming was not just any director. Nor, is GWTW just any story. The film is at once a magnificent tapestry interwoven by a committee of dedicated craftsmen in front of and behind the camera, and by a committee of one in the embodiment of producer David O. Selznick, whose tyrannical control over these vast resources brought cohesion from the chaos and artistry that transcends the artifice.
Without question, Gone With The Wind would not have endured without the ideal actress to play its heroine. Vivien Leigh’s Scarlett has become a cultural touchstone for the ages, the quintessence of that fiery, flawed and tragically human creature dismantling her own happiness while desperately in search of it. Matched to perfection by Gable’s Rhett Butler, an unrepentant paragon of manly grace, it is the sparring between these two central characters that jet propels GWTW through its lengthy three hour plus run time.
But Selznick was not simply satisfied to give his public a central narrative with iconic stars, and as such, the character actors that populate Gone With The Wind’s backdrop are as integral to the film’s success as its principle leads. Who can forget Olivia De Havilland’s true spirit and ever faithful wife, or Leslie Howard’s complacently conflicted returning solider? These are portraits of quiet restraint and beauty etched in our collective memory for all time.
And then, of course, there is Hattie McDaniel’s Oscar worthy – and winning – turn as the defiantly human, compassionately clever house servant who is anything but subservient to her masters. In all, Gone With The Wind excels because Sidney Howard’s screenplay offers each a moment to define their character for the ages, and this, they do without drawing attention to the fact.
With so much to admire and appreciate it really is no wonder Gone With The Wind endures as the world’s most beloved – and most profitable movie of all time (with inflation factored in). I suspect it’s the narrative audiences love best of all. Beyond the sheer size and elegance of the thing, Gone With the Wind is monumental storytelling at its finest. It complements the novel without being its direct descendent.
Indeed, there was quite enough of Margaret Mitchell’s literary south in the film to satisfy the author and literary purists then and now. But Selznick understood that Gone With The Wind was – beyond everything else that had, and has been written about it since, - a good show. He never cheated the audience of these expectations, but tweaked them to suit his own artistic sentiments and the convention of the times.
Perhaps this is the real reason why Gone With The Wind has lasted all these years: because it remains faithful to the human condition. Like life itself, the film is a renewable, revisited by each generation who continue to find something new and revitalizing in its artistry. It speaks to us. It always has. My sincerest hope is that it always will. For a world without Gone With The Wind is quite simply one I wouldn’t want to live in.
Warner Home Video has remastered the film for its 70th Anniversary. The results are spectacular to say the least. This 1080p transfer sparkles, its vintage – fully restored – Technicolor dye transfer shimmering with a refinement of colours and textures. We can, as example – recognize for the first time that the dress Scarlett makes from her mother’s old drapes is not simply green, but velvet as well. Fine details pop as never before. My one complaint – and it is an extremely minor one – is that some of the transfer seems a tad too dark.
Take the iconic moment when Scarlett approaches the weary dawn after returning home to Tara to declare she will ‘never go hungry again’. Her face is obliterated by the darkness. We can’t really see her acting at all. I am not entirely certain this is, as it was intended by the original film makers, but I can most certainly attest to the fact that this scene did not look this way on Warner’s previously issued DVD where Scarlett’s face, particularly her eyes, were very visible.
Otherwise, there’s no comparing the two transfers. The Blu-ray is preferred. The audio has been remixed to 5.1 DTS with extraordinary fidelity emerging in the Max Steiner score. We hear chords and refrains once thought lost through inferior recording technologies and lax preservation efforts. But no, it’s all there and marvellously restored for future generations.
Extras are top heavy indeed. We get the superior ‘The Making of A Legend’ 2 hour documentary hosted by Christopher Plummer and an audio commentary that covers much of the same ground. There are also brief featurettes from 2004 like Melanie Remembers – in which Olivia De Havilland (the only surviving cast member) affectionately waxes about her participation on the film. We also get two ancient TV bios on Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable. Warner adds two additional documentaries not included on the original DVD collector’s set.
First up is 1939: Hollywood’s Greatest Year – hosted by Kenneth Branagh but scant on providing movie clips from film’s produced at other studios. There’s also Moviola: The Scarlett O’Hara Wars – a rather laughable dramatization with Tony Curtis as David Selznick in search of his perfect Scarlett O’Hara. Finally, Warner has included the 6 hour comprehensive documentary MGM: When The Lion Roars.
Warner also pads out this set with a CD sampler and some lovingly reproduced vintage junkets in full colour. These are scant on information and heavy on artwork, booklets good for a brief thumbing through but not much else. I would have preferred to read some literary essays by film scholars or perhaps had some thought-provoking reflections by admirers like Leonard Maltin or Roger Ebert. Oh well – can’t have everything.
Personally, I would like to go on record with a complaint that I consider most valid. None of the aforementioned extras are in a condition worthy of their content. The ‘MGM’ and ‘Making of’ docs look horrible, presented in 480i. This short shrift is most unacceptable. I think the approach Warner ought to have gone for is, if these extras are worthy of inclusion for a 70th anniversary (and believe me, they are) then they are equally worthy of an upgraded 1080p presentation.
Warner gets very high marks for the way they’ve remastered the film. I’ve heard internet grumblings that the presentation ought to have been spread across two Blu-ray discs split at the intermission to improve the overall bitrate. But truthfully, I can’t see where this compression has compromised the quality of the 1080p transfer. It’s dreamy and – at least to my eyes – flawless.
Bottom line: highly recommended.
FILM RATING (out of 5 - 5 being the best)
5+
VIDEO/AUDIO
Feature 4.5
Extras 2.5
EXTRAS
5
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"Vivien Leigh’s Scarlett has become a cultural touchstone for the ages, the quintessence of that fiery, flawed and tragically human creature dismantling her own happiness while desperately in search of it. "
What a wonderfully articulate summation!
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City People sources disclosed that Nollywood star actress, Stephanie Okereke and her man, Linus Idahosa would have tied the knots but for some family issues.According to reports, Idahosa's parents are vehemently against the wedding plan of their son to the star actress insisting that they would not allow such.No one could say whether or not, the reason for the resistance has to do with her career as an actress or what gossip are telling them is a story for another day. Meanwhile, report also indicate that the Faith, the young sister of Stephanie's fiancee is not helping matters at all because of her role in the whole issue. She is allegedly fueling the rhythm of discord amongst factions.Further investigation by Gistmaster indicate that Linus have resolved that It is either Stephanie or nobody else.
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Flickr User Kinnisk_Design [ NJ’s Craft Brewing Industry Gets A Boost [AUDIO] By Stacy Proebstle July 2, 2012 Wanna grab a cold one? The state legislature passed a bill that would modernize laws governing New Jersey's brewpubs and microbreweries. Read More|Comment Category: Most Popular Posts, New Jersey News, News, Political News Tags: alcohol sales, New Jersey Craft Brewers, NJ, njsyndicated, political Send to a friend! Print this page Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Pin it! Reddit This!
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FYI: This appeared as the very first video letter to the editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer…
(PS: Ladies and gents, you are authorized to 5-star and to favorite this video and the William Ayers video, not for my (and Jixie Juny's) sake, but to get these videos' message circulated as widely as possible…)
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Development in Cromer Heights / Red Hill / Oxford Falls
Hi everyone,
I know I am very new here, but I wanted to spread the word about something which may effect you guys along with the residents of Cromer Heights and Red Hill.
Some of you may have biked from the Cromer Connector up through to red hill, however what you may not know is part of that land is crown and part of it is owned by Cromer Golf course. Anyway Cromer golf course has decided to flog the land for development which will pritty much put an end to some of the great mountain biking in the area plus throw a ton of car's into the mix.
The bigger fear is they will build two access roads between Wakehurt parkway and Cromer Heights which would kill of some many of our trails.
An anonymous resident has put together a flyer, which I have scanned and OCR'd (I cant attach the PDF here) for you guys to read.
It would be great to get the communitys help to write a few letters and spread the word on this further destruction of natural habitat.
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CROMER HEIGHTS RESIDENTS
IMPORTANT
You may be aware of Cromer Golf Club's decision to develop a significantly large parcel of land on the North/North western edge of Cromer Heights.
If you are not concerned by this then read no further, if you are, then the time to act is NOW.
BUT DO NOT THINK: “THIS WON'T AFFECT ME ! "
Your council is on record as opposing this development, but the Golf Club is bypassing council & going direct to the Minister for Planning Kristina Keneally for approval! You should be outraged at this affront but it is typical of how "concerned" the golf club is about Cromer residents.
The proposed development is currently 45 housing blocks.
The average Sydney car does 3.78 trips per day (SM Herald 30-5-05) If only two of these trips are to/from home & with (minimal) two cars per house (+ visitors & service vehicles) these 45 blocks can put an extra 400+ cars per day onto Toronto Ave. This extra traffic may well be the last straw to initiate the long mooted western access to Cromer Heights (ie Cromer to Wakehurst Parkway & it's associated mass bush destruction). We will then loose the unique cul-de-sac nature of our suburb. Look at your street directory - Maybrook Ave is already shown as continuing westward to Wakehurst Parkway! Toronto Ave will then become the new Willandra Rd (only worse) - then watch your property values tumble!
(*** golf club members refer to footnotes).
Toronto residents: In peak hours how hard is it to exit your drive now? Blighs / Woodward & Cromer Rd residents: Your streets are the targeted main accesses to this development - you will have these vehicles passing by your homes!
Do you remember the bushfires of 1994? Toronto Ave was a log jam with evacuees & sightseers, it was stated then by the authorities that for safety reasons Cromer Heights needs a further access road. The population has increased greatly since then (eg: Fairway Views Estate, Pinduro Place, Maybrook Manor expansion etc). The proposed release is 13 hectares and to seek approval the golf course is presently (coyly?) saying only 45 blocks of 600 sq metres each - as is often the case(after initial approval is granted) the final development application could well expand on this. (ie When the Land & Environment Court can be appealed) - what is to stop the final development application being larger? (given it's track record the Land & Environment Court would no doubt give it's approval). 13 hectares equates to 216 blocks of 600 sq metres! (1600+ extra cars on Toronto Ave I!!!!) - be warned.
This extra traffic flies in the face of Councils "Living Warringah - In Focus" draft plan with supposedly fewer cars on our roads. Also, this land is the last tract of virgin bush catchment feeding directly into Narrabeen Lake (& includes a creek in an ecologically vulnerable location - i.e. between the proposed two housing groups). The flora (including one species of protected tree already identified) & the wildlife (which have already retreated to this area from the Fairway Views development) should not be lost forever. Why? : just so a few wealthy golfers (the majority of which neither reside in, nor care about, Cromer) can enjoy "better" golf facilities.
The Golf Club presentations to residents stated how concerned/caring they are of Cromer residents, but at the Golf Club General meeting (16 Feb 05) for members to debate and decide whether to proceed on this proposal there were caring calls of "let's just vote so we can get to the bar!" (this is fact - very caring!).
It is known that gum trees are very susceptible once their underground water flow is altered. Unlike Fairway Views Estate which slopes to Cromer Rd, this development is on the slopes directly above thousands of such trees - a huge proportion of which could be lost (not to mention those that will be bulldozed).
Numerous studies by bird watching groups have identified 153+ species within 1kM of the entry point to this proposed development - what happens to these & their nesting sites etc?
Numerous of these are endangered or supposedly protected (eg Powerful Owl, Glossy Black. Cockatoo, Kookaburra, Tawny Frogmouth, King Parrot, Peregrine Falcon etc) The first two are in fact classified "vulnerable" under the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995.
At a Warringah council meeting March 2005 the administrator Mr Dick Persson said: "the population of the Northern beaches is expected to fall and therefore further residential zoning is not appropriate" (surely this must especially apply if virgin bush is to be lost forever & the lake compromised - just to cater for a reducing population).. Council recently spent over $3M of Section 92 funds just to convert ONE housing block on Collaroy beachfront into a park - just shows how priceless open space really is in Warringah! Why not buy this land from the golf club and preserve it for parkland? - this would probably only cost about $2M and seems much better value!
The hypocrisy is staggering, the golf club sees this land as "surplus" - and at only 45 blocks intend reaping huge profits: probably $13M+ from this development, whilst a portion of their golf course sit on taxpayer owned land! (ie land that belongs to you, the taxpayer) They utilise YOUR land under a, "permissive occupancy" agreement with the government. How can land be "surplus" whilst they are utilising public land? This land being utilised by the Golf Club is approx 1.2 km (almost 11 acres) of prime waterfrontage (lake & creek) for which they pay a pittance in rent (the last known figure being less than $110 per week!)
If you refer the National Parks websites (browse Narrabeen Lake/Catchment etc) you will see that Dept of Lands & Dept of Fisheries both acknowledge the importance of Crown Land catchment areas (even as far away as Belrose) feeding into Narrabeen Lake - let's see how serious the authorities are with this land virtually at the lakes edge. Council recently held a summit to discuss problems with the lake re the overdevelopment of catchment areas (one outcome being they agreed to dredge, which no doubt will be a cost to you the ratepayer), you should not bear this cost whilst the golf club reaps millions by adding to the problem (and your cost). Government should not even contemplate approving this development!
The golf club will attempt to argue that a team of expert consultants have reported on proposed impacts to lake/environment/infrastructure/roads etc. Do not be swayed as these experts are paid for by the golf club, they will not bite the hand that employs them. Any adverse findings can easily be 'glossed over' or even omitted. They have already spoken about nature compatible
developments, covenants that building' heights will not exceed tree line etc - do not be swayed, developers do not create covenants which limit their own profits. These blocks will have bushland setting + lake and/or ocean views & will sell in region of $800,000+ each - no one will pay those sums if they can only build a two/three bedroom bungalow! Besides, covenants are not worth the.
paper they are printed on : eg 1) Fairway Views Estate (Cromer's last development) had a covenant whereby if a block had more than 60% non permeable coverage then a stormwater detention tank must be provided - one of the latter built homes thereon has a house covering more
than 90% of the block and NO detention tank (a simple appeal to Land & Environment Court passed both!) With that precedent now set can you imagine 45+ blocks with more than 90% site coverage? eg 2) Manly Daily 11-6-05 The Land & Environment court overruled Pittwater
Councils approval conditions for a house to be 60% concealed by trees and of a 'natural blending' colour - When it comes to the crunch do not believe these pro environment statements will actually be carried out!
Furthermore this development will be on the skyline (as viewed from northern side of lake) - isn't there is supposed to be a covenant preventing skyline construction? (so much for covenants!)The existing Fairway Views Estate development (generally on land sloping away from the lake)was actually refused by Council 29 Aug 1995 for reasons "centred on water quality impacts on Narrabeen Lake" (fact!) - unfortunately this reason has become prophetic with the lake now suffering & Council acknowledging same by a summit to discuss these problems & best remedies.
Back then the developer was the Crown (Landcom), and council's refusal was able to be overridden by the State Minister for Urban Affairs & Planning (Craig Knowles) on 5 Feb 1996. What with the lakes problems since that development (maybe because of ???), then logic would
suggest government must also reject this application for land generally sloping toward the lake. If not then compelling explanations must be given.
The Golf clubs solution to water quality of the lake? : from their community info session (25 June 05) they propose detention tanks on the lower side of this development as their means of protecting the lake. We were told when these tanks become full of sediment/rubbish etc the
development residents are responsible & they will ensure these are emptied & contents removed to suitable waste collection!!!! (and pigs may fly!)
Please take 10/15 minutes, write to Kristina Keneally (address below) and/or Local Member Brad Hazzard (who happens to be Shadow Minister for Planning) to secure the magic area in which we reside for yourselves & future generations.
Please do not merely send a copy of this document show you care enough & take time to write personally (by all means use any or all of above arguments and preferably any of your own).
Do not merely use the NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) argument - this holds no sway, argue on grounds of environment / traffic / lake catchment / visual pollution / waste of ratepayer funds to dredge etc.
But please do not delay, I believe the application has already gone in (hard to know as it is being
snuck through)
Thankyou
A Concerned Resident
**** footnote for Golf Club Members who reside in Cromer: any perceived benefit you may
receive from this proposal will be peanuts compared to the reduction in your property value!'
If the development proceeds - take special note of how the money is actually utilised. Maybe more
"improvements" to your course? (I note the club trialled yellow tee competitions - because since
the last "improvements" the course is now too difficult for 99% of the members).
Or maybe once the club is flushed with funds the government may insist on "market rate" rent for
the public land being utilised? - the public will insist on this & then see how quickly your "profits"
are eroded!
Addresses for reference:
The Honorable Kristina Keneally
Minister for Planning
Governor Macquarie Tower
Level 36 1 Farrer Place
Sydney NSW 2000
The Honourable Brad Hazzard
Shadow minister for Planning
Shop 3 637-641 Pittwater Rd
(PO Box 405)
Dee Why NSW 2099
Ph 9981 5059 Fax 9981 1111
We are fortunate that Frank Sartor (Minister for Rubber Stamping) was removed from the planning
portfolio - please do not waste this windfall & lobby Kristina Keneally heavily (as you can be sure
the golf club will !)
Due to logistics this leaflet will only be distributed to every 2nd house - please pass it on to your next door neighbour.
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- Overview
- Audio
- Video
- Publications
- IONS Film Project
Publications Books
Spontaneous Remission
An Annotated Bibliography
by Caryle Hirschberg and Brendan O'Regan.
All the documents in the bibliography are downloadable in PDF format:
- Table of Contents
- Introduction: Pages 1-52
- Chapter 1: Pages 53-58
- Remission of Neoplasms of Lip, Oral Cavity, and Pharynx
- Chapter 2: Pages 59-92
- Remission of Neoplasms of Digestive Organs and Peritoneum
- Chapter 3: Pages 93-111
- Remission of Neoplasms of Respiratory and Intrathoracic Organs
- Chapter 4: Pages 112-142
- Remission of Neoplasms of Bone, Connective Tissue, and Soft Tissue
- Chapter 5: Pages 143-166
- Remission of Neoplasms of the Female Breast
- Chapter 6: Pages 167-197
- Remission of Neoplasms of the Skin
- Chapter 7: Pages 198-219
- Remission of Neuroblastoma
- Chapter 8: Pages 220-288
- Remission of Neoplasms of Genitourinary Organs
- Chapter 9: Pages 289-309
- Remission of Neoplasms of the Eye, Brain, Nervous System, and Endocrine Glands
- Chapter 10: Pages 310-348
- Remission of Neoplasms of Lymphatic and Hematopoietic Tissue
- Chapter 11: Pages 349-379
- Remission of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases
- Chapter 12: Pages 380-408
- Remission of Endocrine, Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases, and Immunity Disorders
- Chapter 13: Pages 409-440
- Remission of Diseases of the Circulatory System, Blood, and Blood Forming Organs
- Chapter 14: Pages 441-454
- Remission of Nervous System, Sense Organs, and Mental Disorders
- Chapter 15: Pages 455-460
- Remission of Respiratory System Diseases
- Chapter 16: Pages 461-475
- Remission of Digestive System Diseases
- Chapter 17: Pages 476-487
- Remission of Genitourinary System, and Pregnancy and Childbirth Related Disorders
- Chapter 18: Pages 488-495
- Remission of Diseases of the Skin, Subcutaneous Tissue, Musculoskeletal System, and Connective Tissue
- Chapter 19: Pages 496-502
- Remission of Injury Related Disorders
- Appendix One: Pages 503-530
- Review Articles
- Appendix Two: Pages 531-558
- Behavioral Aspects of Remission
- Appendix Three: Pages 559-576
- Clinical and Experimental Studies
- Appendix Four: Pages 577-646
- Infection Related Remission
- Addendum: Pages 647-674
- Index: Pages 675-694
- Author Index: Pages 695-703
- Journal Index: Pages 704-713
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I was persuaded to read Thomas Glavinic's Night Work by Steve Mitchelmore's thoughtful review of the novel. I do believe that Steve's defense of its strategy of non-revelation is more convincing than the complaints made by some reviewers that the novel fails because it does not adequately account for the circumstances motivating the story, but ultimately I wasn't quite as taken with Night Work as was Steve or some other of its reviewers. I'm not sorry I expended the time to read the book, although it has turned out to be one of those books that, for me at least, has been more stimulating to think about in retrospect than it was while reading it.
To some degree I expected to not like the book much at all, however much I generally trust Steve Mitchelmore's judgment. If it's not exactly a "post-apocalytic" novel, it sounds when first described to be close enough to that sub-genre, and I can't say I've ever been one of its fans. (And I don't mean just its SF version in particular; the post-apocalyptic novels written by Denis Johnson and Paul Auster and Cormac McCarty haven't done much for me, either.) These novels always seem to be striving so hard to "say something"--about technological development, about human nature, about what the future might bring if we don't watch out!--that I am unable to take much pleasure in them as works of fiction on a purely aesthetic level. It's not that the "vision" of human life after the ultimate catastrophe is itself unpleasantly dark; it's that the formal resources of fiction have been so thoroughly subsumed to rhetorical ends that I feel I'm being lectured.
Night Work mostly avoids this problem, although questions about what has happened and why must inevitably persist about a narrative that posits a world emptied of all human and animal life save for the story's protagonist, Jonas. But not only does the novel resolutely refuse to disclose the source of the protagonist's dilemma, it becomes clear rather early on that the source of this dilemma is really beside the point. This is a novel set in an apparently calamitous future that is not going to resolve itself into a meditation on that calamity or a satire of human folly but is instead going to explore through the actions and state of mind of its solitary main character what it would be like to be the last vestige of conscious life in existence.
The narrative does playfully leave the suggestion that the "night work" performed by Jonas's sleeping self might be the cause of his predicament, perhaps a kind of half-awake dissociative state. Jonas begins videotaping himself asleep, and he does witness what must be episodes of sleepwalking (which also start to become evident in other ways as well, as when Jonas apparently locks himself into the trunk of his car while asleep). The moment when Jonas watches his sleepwalking self peer into the camera at his awakened self (or vice versa?) is almost vertiginous in its self-referentiality. But even if sleepwalking provides some sort of "explanation" of Jonas's experiences--and it would be a pretty lame one, if we were to take it literally--it doesn't finally matter to our own experience of Jonas's story. Whether it is "really" happening or not fades in importance, as does whether it occurs in the aftermath of a plague, or an alien invasion, or through any other "logical" explanation, to the comprehensive accounting of Jonas's response to the new realities of his situation, literally dreamed up or not.
One inevitably thinks of the night work named in the title as being the work of fiction as well. What Jonas confronts is something he desperately hopes is fiction--a forced encounter with "reality" on a transformed, elemental level--but that increasingly forces itself on him as reality, however uncanny it has become. If it is possible to emerge from the structured dream of fiction with an expanded sense of reality, Jonas is unable to emerge from his dream at all, and he learns that the reality it has become is ultimately unbearable. But this is where my appreciation of Night Work begins to break down. I'm not really sure how much Glavinic himself appreciates the literary/aesthetic implications of his novel, and this reservation is reinforced by both the novel's narrative method and its prose style.
Night Work is presented to us through a more or less conventional third-person narration. It begins on the morning Jonas enters into his anomalous state and ends with his apparent death. Although we are restricted to Jonas's own actions and perceptions, we are not immersed fully into his "deep" consciousness as in much "psychological realism," and while this is to some degree a deliverance from this now stale approach, it creates another problem in a narrative so reduced to activity and event. The narration is mostly concerned to relate what Jonas does:
In the station concourse he trotted from ticket office to ticket office, shop to shop, smashing the windows with his wrench. He didn't disconnect the security alarms this time. Having broken the window of the bureau de change, he waited to see if its alarm would go off, or if he would have to continue his orgy of destruction. Perhaps some-still surviving guardian of the law would think a heist was in progress and intervene.
To the ear-splitting accompaniment of the security alarms he rode the escalator up to the platforms. Taking his time, he began by exploring platforms 1 to 11 in the east section, where he'd seldom been before. Then he boarded the second escalator.
He also smashed the windows of the shops in the south section. They weren't equipped with burglar alarms, which surprised him. He raided one for a bag of crisps and a can of lemonade, plus a packet of paper handkerchiefs for his runny nose. From the newsagent's he grabbed a stack of newspapers two days old.
The level of detail provided here (and throughout the novel) is so generic I almost feel I am reading a screenplay, or at least a novel heavily influenced by cinema. This wouldn't necessarily be an inherent flaw--Robert Coover's A Night at the Movies and The Adventures of Lucky Pierre are both ingenious appropriations of film for literary effect--but the straighforwardly episodic structure of Night Work is not particularly enlivened by its prose, which, as in the passage quoted, remains rather pedestrian. If Night Work becomes particularly laborious in its middle sections, its uninspired language seems to me the immediate cause.
Or at least so it seems, as I am judging Glavinic's style as rendered in its English translation. Perhaps the banality of "trotted from office to office" and the cliches of "orgy of destruction" and "guardian of the law" are fair equivalents of Glavinic's German phrases, or perhaps they are as close as the translator could get to Glavinic's more felicitous words. Since my German is near non-existent, I really have no way of telling, so while I am inclined to think that the bland prose style is authentic enough Glavinic, I was sufficiently engaged with his story and his intrepid commitment to its ultimate indeterminacy that I'd like to think this translation is not appropriately faithful to the German text.
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My body is bruised and battered from a very good workout. I love fullbody workouts because i dont feel like im leaving something undone. Some people say you train the body you train the mind. For the rest of the night i am trying to broaden my mind… time for some reading…
February 2012
Ya Allah, give me eyes that see the best in people, a heart that forgives the...– Daily…
That concludes, my humpday broadcast for the day. It is almost time for the gym. I will be doing cardio and full body workout today. This is a good place for me to relax and refocus my mind before returning home to complete any unfinished work I have waiting on me when I return. I can’t wait for the weather to return to it’s balanced state. Oh, how I miss living up North… Rules for Conquering the Gym! →
fuckbeingfat-befit:ah is with you wherever you are. Remember you’re not alone.– Qur’an (57:4)
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. . . wrote Andy Rooney in this long-ago essay. This makes as much sense to the Nonprofiteer as anything else Andy Rooney ever said, which is to say, not much. What does it mean to “deserve” charity, beyond needing it? As George Bernard Shaw’s Alfred Doolittle memorably explained in Pygmalion,.
Philosopher Matt Zwolinski made the same point in somewhat more formal terms.
T]he mere fact that there is a valid moral distinction to be made does not entail that we want our public policies to make it. It is, after all, difficult to discern between the deserving and the undeserving – maybe especially for governments, but for private charities too.
And Jewish folklore provides yet another version. The story is told of a rabbi who gave a beggar $100 and then faced the reproaches of his wife, who’d seen the beggar’s wife wearing fur. “He told me he needed it, and I had it, so I gave it to him,” replied the rabbi. “What he does with it after is none of my concern.” The point is that generosity is the process of separating yourself from your money, not the process of evaluating someone else’s virtues.
Does the Nonprofiteer tend to give her money to causes she judges worthwhile (and therefore deserving) and to agencies she believes are efficient (and therefore deserving)? Of course. But does she worry about whether the UN Population Fund is providing assistance only to women who became pregnant by an angel, or whether the ACLU vindicates the rights only of upright church-goers? Of course not. People who need help, deserve help. End of conversation.
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Mrs. Faye Mitchell, 53, of 1160 Island Road, passed away early Wednesday morning, June 30 at her home. She had been in failing health for the past 7 months.
She was born January 28, 1957 in Cornwall, the daughter of William and Ginger Lazore Francis. She attended schools in Cornwall and graduated from General Vanier Secondary School. Faye married Roger A. Mitchell on August 28, 1978 at St. Regis Catholic Church with Rev. Francis Arsenault, officiating.
Fay once worked for Indian Affairs in Ottawa. She also was a supervisor at the Mohawk Bingo Palace for several years. She also operated Faye’s Deli in Hogansburg and Faye’s General Store on Cornwall Island. She was a member of Kateri Circle and the Akwesasne Bowling Association. She enjoyed bowling, golfing and was an avid crafter. She was also a race car fan and her true pride and joy was spending time with her family, especially her grandchildren.
She is survived by her husband, Roger; two daughters, Abby Mitchell of Cornwall Island and Jenna Mitchell and her companion, Stevie Johnson of Cornwall Island; two grandchildren, Quinten and Clayden; her mother and stepfather, Ginger and Eric Seymour of Cornwall Island; her father, William of Cornwall Island; two sisters, Sheri Francis and her companion, Deon David of Akwesasne and Carrie and Randy Square, Akwesasne; a brother, Billy and Carol Francis of North Carolina; a dear aunt, Patti Mancuso of Rochester; a special friend, Sarah David; and many additional aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and cousins.
Friends may call at the family home beginning Thursday 7:00 p.m. until 9:30 a.m. Saturday. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Saturday 11:00 a.m. at St. Regis Catholic Church with Rev. George H. Belgarde, SJ., officiating. Burial will follow in St. Lawrence Cemetery, St. Regis, Quebec. Arrangements are with the Donaldson Funeral Home, Massena.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Akwesasne Cancer Support Group.
The family wishes to extend a sincere gratitude of thanks, love and appreciation to the Home Care and Home Support Nurses and staff for their gentle, tender loving care.
Condolences may be made online at.
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The record-breaking $579 million winning Powerball numbers have been selected and there are two winning tickets.
Sorry, Georgia lottery players. No need to check your tickets.
Early this morning, officials confirmed that the tickets had been sold in Arizona and Missouri, according to the Associated Press.
The winning Powerball numbers for the Nov. 28, 2012 drawing were 5, 16, 22, 23, 29 and also a Powerball number of 6.
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If you want to help redecorate a relative's home this holiday season, your first stop should be at the 4th Annual Ruth Haddon Memorial Arts Festival.
The festival will be held at the Wesley United Methodist Church on Saturday, Nov. 3 and Sunday, Nov. 4.
The event will showcase items from local artists including Anita Caldwell Jackson, Robert Stedwill, Rex Howard, Marti Nelson and Beth Huntley to name a few.
Guests will be able to browse through items including paintings, prints, photography, Native American art, glass pottery and jewelry.
Organizers say handmade items from Liberia will also be available for purchase. Proceeds from those items will benefit mission trips in Liberia.
The festival will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Sunday.
Admission is free and open to the public.
The church is located at 1401 N.W. 25th St. in Oklahoma City.
For more information, call (405) 525-3521.
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For $15, you get two three-game passes for laser tag or 3-D mini golf at The Spaceport in Mandeville (a $30 value). Customers may divide their passes between laser tag and mini golf play, and must use all passes during a one-day visit. If you are new to Groupon, click here to set up your account. Once you have an account, click here to find this deal!
Location
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The Fine Print
- Expires Feb 3, 2012
- Limit 4 per person, may buy multiple as gifts. Limit 1 per visit.
- See the rules that apply to all deals.
Highlights
- Multi-level laser tag arena
- Robotic adversaries
- Space-themed mini golf course
Decked in intergalactic décor and vibrant iridescence, The Spaceport challenges futuristic assassins and illuminated club wielders during lively games of laser tag and mini golf. After equipping themselves with beam-firing phasers and adjustable vests, laser taggers receive a short mission briefing before invading a multi-level arena. Black-lit barriers and robotic crossing guards pepper the radiant battlegrounds as adversaries crouch under fog plumes and dart through colorful lighting en route to victory. Competitors can also choose to explore the celestial obstacles of the mini golf course, where dynamic hues bring three-dimensional spacemen and aliens to vivid life. Putters guide dimpled spheres across the course’s darkened felts before reaching the final hole, where perfect shots cue a spirited rocket launch and celebratory Caddyshack reenactments.
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As I prepare to leave this part of the world, it would perhaps be useful to record one of my favourite longbarrows. Stoney Littleton is a small jewel set in the Somerset landscape, if you were to read the field notes on The Modern Antiquarian you would find the same sort of joy at finding something so unexpected. The last time I visited was with the person I shall be with from now on and I'll expect we shall come back and visit it again some day.
One of the good things about visiting the same place, is that you get to see the flora over a period of time, ox eyed daisies, thyme, orchids, ladies bedstraw, ragwort, etc adorn this barrow at different times of the year. The little Bybrook stream that meanders at the bottom of the hill, is clear and shallow and I have seen the beautiful metallic blues of demoiselles flying above its surface with the small white flower of frogsbite in the water below, tresses of green swirling plants gently moving in the current. Other times I have seen the pink hooded flower of balsam gracing the sides of the stream.
As you come down this tiny lane and park in the small carpark opposite the cottage, stand awhile on the little wooden bridge and take in 'old England', walk up the steep hill, past the sheep if they are there, over the stile into the small plot of land that surrounds the barrow, and do please note the stoniness of the field you have walked through, it is quite extraordinary.
Coming to the barrow, this is a time for contemplation and peace, prehistory gave birth to this place, and as you sit by the entrance look up to the ridge above, the barrow is seen as a 'goddess' symbolling the entrance to mother earth,and it is from the ridge that the approach would have been made, entering into the womb of the earth. Julian Cope in his book The Modern Antiquarian, has articles on this.
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Patriots to Hold Memorial Service for Equipment Manager Don Brocher on Jan. 5
A memorial service for Patriots equipment manager Don Brocher will be held in the East Putnam Club at Gillette Stadium on Saturday, Jan. 5. Doors open at 10:30 a.m.
For 41 years, Don Brocher traveled to Foxborough ready for work and to help others. It was that selfless attitude and the love for his job with the New England Patriots that left a lasting impression on many within the organization, including Patriots head coach Bill Belichick. “He was never one to complain, never one to talk about how he was doing, he was just there to help the rest of us,” Belichick said during Wednesday’s press conference. “We’ll miss him.” Brocher lost his battle to Leukemia early Tuesday morning, passing away peacefully at Massachusetts General Hospital with his loving wife Laurie, family and friends by his side. He was 60 years old. In a business that sees massive turnover year-after-year, Brocher managed to stay …
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If anyone has information regarding the parents of William READING & Mary LACY, please contact me.
The father of William READING may be a George READING (b. around ca. 1778) of Hunterdon Co., NJ; however, I have not yet seen proof.
(1) William READING, b. unknown (probably about ca. 1800) probably in Hunterdon Co., NJ, d. unknown probably in Bucks Co., NJ; m. to Mary LACY (b. unknown); they resided near New Hope, Solebury Twsp., Bucks Co., PA; their children:
i. Charles H., b. 20 Feb 1823, d. 7 Apr 1905, m. Elizabeth A. HORNING; [2] ii. George W., b. 20 Feb 1823, d. 30 Nov 1905, m. Jane Elizabeth CARKHUFF.
i. Mary E., b. 6 Mar 1847, d. 15 Feb 1923, m. Samuel HIGGINS; ii. Alice A., b. 1851, m. Thomas GOOD; iii. Henrietta, b. 1853; iv. Elen, b. 1855; [#3] v. Sarah E. Thatcher, b. 18 Apr 1857, d. 13 Nov 1942, m. Winfield Scott POULSON; vi. Charles R., b. about May 1861, d. Mar 1925, m. 1st Anna A. THATCHER, m. 2nd Elsie DELPHO; vii. John, b. about Sep 1863; viii. Cornelia A., b. about Feb 1867, m. Mahlon SMITH; ix. Martha M., b. 5 Mar 1869, d. 17 Jul 1936, m. Britton HIGGINS.
(3) Sarah E. Thatcher READING, b. 18 Apr 1857 in Delaware Twsp., Hunterdon Co., NJ, d. 13 Nov 1942 in Trenton, Mercer Co., NJ; burial: Riverview Cemetery; m., 16 Jan 1879 in Grover (Headquarters), Hunterdon Co., NJ, to Winfield Scott POULSON (b. 18 Jul 1851, d. 28 Jan 1940).
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Last updated: 24 December 2010
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The 6-foot-2, 180-pound Brown missed part of his season with a collarbone injury, but he is more than making up for it with an explosive return.
In his last two games, Brown has 245 receiving yards and six touchdowns, and he also has a punt return for a score.
In his senior video, Brown shows speed to go with his long strides that eat up yardage quickly. He runs good routes and shows very good hands while being elusive after the catch and not afraid of contact.
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SL Green Realty Corp. acquired 635 Sixth Avenue and 641 Sixth Avenue, two adjoining New York City buildings totaling 267,000 sq. ft., from Atlas Capital Group LLC for $173 million in an off-market transaction. The price works out to $648 per sq. ft.
The buildings were built in 1902 as a contiguous department store spanning a full block on Manhattan’s Sixth Avenue. 635 Sixth Avenue contains 104,000 sq. ft. of space and recently became vacant after Apex Technical School moved out. 641 Sixth Avenue contains 163,000 sq. ft. and is 100 percent occupied, by tenants including Google and Infor. The buildings also contain 47,000 sq. ft. of combined retail space. Atlas originally bought 641 Sixth Avenue in 2007, and recently acquired 635 Sixth Avenue for full block assemblage.
“First the acquisition of 304 Park Avenue South and now the addition of these two properties are classic SL Green-type investments—sourcing off-market transactions, fully understanding their complexities, underwriting their potential and then executing,” said SL Green President Andrew Mathias in a statement. “This is a great example of how we utilize our extensive relationships and know-how to capitalize on opportunities.”
Rob Martin, of Jones Lang LaSalle, served as an advisor on this transaction.
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We Walked To Paris
On Valentine’s Day, North Shore-LIJ announced a challenge for all employees. Form teams and walk the 7.2 million steps it would take to reach Paris from New York, and those that cross the “finish line” will be entered into a drawing where the winning prize is a trip for all of the team members to Paris, France.
The challenge was accepted! An unprecedented 15,000 employees participated in the Walk to Paris – forming teams, walking at least 8,000 steps every day, and having a great time doing it. Read Newsday’s coverage of our employees on the Walk to Paris.
The challenge ended in late June, and the eagerly anticipated closing ceremonies and Winner’s Drawing took place on June 18th at the Crest Hollow Country Club. Over 1,000 Team Captains and wellness champions enjoyed a French-themed breakfast and were on hand to see who would win the prize. The events were telecast live, for all the employees who couldn’t make it to the party.
Congratulations to Teams Walka Walka Walka, Microbiologie Marche A’ Paris, Champs-Elysees and Twinkle Toes.
North Shore-LIJ President and CEO Michael Dowling surprised everyone by not drawing just one winning team, but four grand prize winners!! Forty North Shore-LIJ employees have just won all-expenses paid trip to the City of Light.
Chock full of surprises, Mr. Dowling also drew the names of ten more teams to win the second-prize of an assortment of wellness-related choices, including personal chefs, day trips to a spa and gym memberships.
Much of the feedback from those who participated was the impact the walking made on the overall health of employees and their families.
Mr. Dowling noted in his speech:
• Eileen Marcel, a nurse at Syosset Hospital from team “Pain Pacers,” has been a diabetic for about 15 years. Since she started walking in this challenge, she significantly lowered her blood sugar levels, and as a result, has been able to decrease her diabetes medication.
• Monica McGuire, an employee at Forest Hills Hospital from team “HIMnotics,” lost 10 pounds as a result of the Walk to Paris. Her success has motivated her family to join a gym and start eating healthier.
• Andrea Noad in Patient Financial Services lost two dress sizes. She discovered that her new summer dresses which she bought at the end of the season last year were too loose to wear after she participated in the Walk to Paris. She and teammate Cynthia Harvey-Williams attributed their success to walking up the hill from 400 Lakeville Road to the North Shore Towers twice a day.
Walk to Paris is part of a commitment that North Shore-LIJ has made to employee wellness.
“The whole idea emanated from a large package of services that have to promote wellness, like anti-smoking campaigns, getting to know your numbers…gym memberships, Weight Watchers, etc.”
And judging by the overwhelming participation in Walk to Paris — wellness is catching on. “You could see from what was going on in the audience that it was highly motivating, people were excited about it, and people now are just doing this anyway because they are in the habit of walking and exercising and they are continuing to do it.” Mr. Dowling said. “And it’s all about wellness.”
Mr. Dowling noted that wellness is part of the health reform movement. “This is part of the whole effort that the supreme court dealt with,” Mr. Dowling said. “How do you get people to get healthier and do it on an ongoing consistent basis. As a health care organization we have the obligation to do it more than anybody else because that’s the business we are in.”
Learn more about how North Shore-LIJ is transforming careers and lives.
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The monthly theme for May brings us to the last two limbs of Patanjali’s Ashtanga Yoga, Dhyana and Samadhi.
From the previous limb or Dharana, we learned the importance of single pointed concentration. It is the foundation for the next limb, Dhyana, or meditation. It is at this point that there is uninterrupted flow of concentration. It is a fine distinction but at this point the mind has quieted and in the stillness it produces few or no thoughts at all. One is aware without focus. One has actually merged with the object of concentration. It has often been compared to rain drops falling. The rain drops themselves represent, dharana, or intermittent moments of focused attention. When they fall to Earth and create a river, there is a merging of the individual raindrops into one stream, like dhyana, or meditation.
The final limb is Samadhi, or enlightenment or super consciousness. Here we lose all attachment and are one with the meditation. Samadhi is the state in which we no longer experience reality through our own filters. Instead we experience reality directly. It is the state in which you are aware on a cellular level of the underlying oneness of the universe. Judith Lasater says “ Samadhi is a state of being intensely present without a point of view.” It is believed that we can achieve this in our everyday lives but is seems we need the journey of yoga to discover what was present inside us all along.
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