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Reports are coming in that a Naval FA/18 Hornet jet fighter crashed into an apartment building in Virginia Beach, Virginia near Naval Airstation Oceana. A traffic cam video from a local news station shows smoke coming from off-camera near I-264.
A witness at the scene claims to have spoken to one of the pilots who said, "I'm sorry for crashing into your apartment complex." More below.
UPDATE 1 There's a livestream of the accident right here on WTKR-TV.
UPDATE 2: A photo added from WAVY who say that the two pilots ejected safely and were taken to a local hospital.
UPDATE 3 (1:27 PM EST): Now we have the video over on the left of the aftermath as black smoke billows out from the crashed jet.
UPDATE 4: New shot at the top showing the tail wreckage of the crashed F-18 via WKTR.
This morning an F18 assigned to 106 training squad crashed just outside the US Naval Airbase Oceana. Both pilots safely ejected. Lt. Kafka said they'd heard reports that the plane crashed into a apartment complex, but fell short of actually confirming them. He said both military and nonmilitary responders were on the ground. Couldn't confirm reports of an casualties on the ground and said that the cause of the crash was still unknown at the time.
UPDATE 5 (1:32 PM EST): According to WTKR, Pat Cavanaugh, a witness on the ground — and retired squad member — just said he saw the pilot, who said "I'm sorry for crashing into your apartment complex."
UPDATE 6 (1:36 PM EST): We now have video of the fires in the apartment complex just moments after it happened. The video is from a viewer of WTKR in Virginia Beach.
UPDATE 7 (1:38 PM EST): We're overhearing from the fire department scanners that the firemen are dumping water on the plane now for purposes of vapor and carbon fiber suppression.
UPDATE 8 (1:41 PM EST): Our own Ben Preston used to live in Virginia Beach. Here's his thoughts on what it was like living nearby the airbase:
Virginia Beach hovers somewhere between laid back beach town and military powerhouse, with many cars sporting "I Love Jet Noise" stickers on their back bumpers. Jet noise, or "the sound of freedom," as many call it, is a way of life. I lived there for three years, and phone conversations were usually punctuated with, "PPPFFFFCCCCKKKAAAAAA!!! ...Stand by. Jet." They flew right over my house near the corner of Baltic and Arctic. My fellow Virginia Beach Lifesaving Service ocean patrol guards and I were regularly treated to impromptu F/A-18 aerobatic maneuvers and Navy Seal parachute landings, performed over the Atlantic Ocean. Today's crash is a real tragedy.
UPDATE 9 (2:03 PM EST): According to WKTR, five civillians have been taken to the hospital, but the extent of their injuries is not yet known.
UPDATE 10 (2:04 PM EST): Here's a map of the crash zone — it's what's called an "Accident Potential Zone (APZ) map." Here's a definition of what that means:
Additionally, the DoD identifies APZ's as a planning tool for local planning agencies. APZ's are areas where an aircraft mishap is most likely to occur if one occurs. They do not reflect the probability of an accident. APZ's follow arrival, departure and pattern flight tracks and are based upon analysis of historical data. For an area to be deemed an APZ, a minimum 5,000 flight operations- landing or takeoff- have to occur annually. The AICUZ map defines three APZ's- the Clear Zone, APZ 1, and APZ 2. The Clear Zone extends 3,000 feet beyond the runway and has the highest potential for accidents. APZ 1 extends 5,000 feet beyond the Clear Zone, and APZ 2 extends 7,000 feet beyond APZ1. An accident is more likely to occur in APZ 1 than APZ 2 and more likely to occur in the Clear Zone than in either APZ 1 or APZ 2.
The apartment complex was in an APZ 2, which means a lower probability of a crash than APZ 1.
UPDATE 11 (2:45 PM EST): Here's an amazing shot of the pilot's ejection seat after it landed next to a house near the crash site. [SOURCE]
UPDATE 12 (2:49 PM EST): A YouTube user caught another angle of the fire that occurred immediately after the crash. You can see a fire crew on the scene trying to put the roof out.
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Welcome to our Holiday 2012 Spotlight Hops! We're releasing four new sets and a plain jane this Friday, November 2! Please join us each day this week as we showcase the new sets and count down to our release! All of the stamps you see featured will be available in the Verve store following our release party from 9-11pm Eastern on Friday, November 2!
In the meantime, we've got a fun filled hop for you today! So let your fingers do the clicking and peek into the creative minds of Verve's talented Divas as they give you a little tour of what's to come! Inspiration abounds, and so do the PRIZES!
That's right! We've picked a mystery blog from today's hop and hidden a prize! So be sure to give a little shout out in the comment section as you hop around to each blog on the list. We'll draw a random winner from all of the comments on the mystery blog to win today's featured stamps. Check out the Verve Blog for all the prize details and deadlines.
Today, the design team is sharing projects created with the new Merry & Bright set! This set is loaded with fabulous Verve fonts and some gorgeous snowflakes! I used the medium sized snowflake to stamp on my background layer. I stamped the sentiment, cut it out using an Oval Nestabilties die, and mounted it on an ornament (that I cut out using my Silhouette).
Ready for some more Merry & Bright inspiration? Hop on over to Maureen's Blog...she's next on the list! :-)
Thanks for stopping by! Hugs, Laurie
Stamps: Merry & Bright (Verve)
Paper: Very Merry Christmas (Echo Park), Miss Caroline (My Mind's eye), Kraft (PTI), Shimmery White
Ink: Soft Brown, Cup O' Joe (Hero Arts), Walnut Stain Distress Ink
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A friend of mine has a brother that is getting ready to turn 30. Six months ago, she purchased tickets to see the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the Sprint Center in Kansas City on October 27. She was planning on them going to the show together.
He IS married and it seems he and his wife now have plans on that date, even though his spouse knew about these tickets WELL in advance. Now she doesn't want him to go and accept his birthday present from his sister. I've been invited to attend the concert if it turns out he can't go. | <urn:uuid:d0e358e7-d323-4477-a645-8b39cf28e2d2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kxkx.com/category/surveys/page/12/ | 2013-06-19T12:25:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.996518 | 117 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
I was on my way to work this morning on the community bus (£2.10 return, very reasonable), heading up Creeting Lane, when suddenly, a deer leapt in the road in front of us, disappearing equally quickly into the trees on the other side. It wasn't the only one either, as there was another right behind it.
I looked across to the right, through the trees, where there were another four deer, the remainder of the herd, heading across the field beyond them.
It was a misty, murky morning in the Gipping Valley, and the lack of visibility obviously provides our larger wild mammals an opportunity to move from one grazing spot to another. But, whilst the deer have learned to take advantage of the fog, it adds a whole new set of risks for rural motorists.
Deer are surprisingly quick, and even more surprisingly solid, and if one appears on a narrow country lane in front of you, there is little chance of missing it. The prospect of a deer coming through the windscreen is not one to savour, and deaths are not unknown.
In New Hampshire, away from the Interstate highways, moose are a huge problem. Bull moose can weigh more than 1000 lbs, and given that roads are quite winding, you can be upon one far too late to break. Worse still, they are attracted to roads by the salt laid to keep the roads ice-free, I'm told, so reaction times are even worse if you need to brake.
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Comparative transcriptomic responses to chronic cadmium, fluoranthene, and atrazine exposure in Lumbricus Rubellus
Svendsen, C.; Owen, J.; Kille, P.; Wren, J.; Jonker, M. J.; Hedley, B. A.; Morgan, A. J.; Blaxter, M.; Sturzenbaum, S. R.; Hankard, P. K.; Lister, L. J.; Spurgeon, D. J.. 2008 Comparative transcriptomic responses to chronic cadmium, fluoranthene, and atrazine exposure in Lumbricus Rubellus. Environmental Science and Technology, 42 (11). 4208-4214. doi10.1021/es702745d:Full text not available from this repository.
Transcriptional responses of a soil-dwelling organism (the earthworm Lumbricus rubellus) to three chemicals, cadmium (Cd), fluoranthene (FA), and atrazine (AZ), were measured following chronic exposure, with the aim of identifying the nature of any shared transcriptional response. Principal component analysis indicated full or partial separation of control and exposed samples for each compound but not for the composite set of all control and exposed samples. Partial least-squares discriminant analysis allowed separation of the control and exposed samples for each chemical and also for the composite data set, suggesting a common transcriptional response to exposure. Genes identified as changing in expression level (by the least stringent test for significance) following exposure to two chemicals indicated a substantial number of common genes (>127). The three compound overlapping gene set, however, comprised only 25 genes. We suggest that the low commonality in transcriptional response may be linked to the chronic concentrations (∼10% EC50) and chronic duration (28 days) used. Annotations of the three compound overlapping gene set indicated that genes from pathways most often associated with responses to environmental stress, such as heat shock, phase I and II metabolism, antioxidant defense, and cation balance, were not represented. The strongest annotation signature was for genes important in mitochondrial function and energy metabolism.
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1. Name me a better football player than Jim Brown?
2. Name me a better baseball player than Babe Ruth?
3. Name me a better basketball player than Michael Jordan?
4. Name me a better hockey player than Wayne Gretzky?
On September 18, 1975, publishing heiress turned urban guerilla Patty Hearst, victim of a bizarre kidnap by the Symbionese Liberation Party, was found by federal US agents following one of the most extensive manhunts in history.
That same afternoon, a cub reporter from the Fitchburg Sentinel parked his car in a field on the New England farm of noted philanthropist George R. Wallace, Jr. Phil Esposito, all-star center of the Boston Bruins, pulled up next to the journalist.
Both were heading for a clambake at the Wallace farm, an event to fete the Bruins, who in those years held their pre-season training camp in Fitchburg, Mass.
As they walked up to the barn to join Bruins players, coaches and local politicians and luminaries from Fitchburg, Esposito turned to the reporter and said, “Did you hear? They found Patty Hearst.”
Moments later another Bruins player, all-star defenseman Bobby Orr, emerged from an apple orchard on Wallace’s farm. Orr was limping noticeably. Espo, concerned about this teammate, asked him if he was all right. Orr smiled, but admitted the knee was bothering him.
Little did Orr — or Espo, the reporter and the clambakers — suspect it at the time, but Orr’s his brilliant career was just about over at age 27. A few days later, Orr was sidelined and had knee surgery.
He would play just 10 games for the Bruins in 1975. Orr would never skate for the Bruins again, playing 26 games for the Chicago Black Hawks between 1976-77 and 1978-79 before retiring, his brilliant career over at age 30.
Orr played all 80 games during his final full season in 1974-75, scoring a career-high 46 goals, and won his second Art Ross scoring trophy as he led the NHL in both assists with 89 and points with 135.
He was never the same player after 1975, when he won a record eighth straight Norris Trophy as the league’s top defenseman.
But during his Koufaxian-like career which began with a Calder Trophy as an 18-year-old NHL Rookie of the Year in 1966-67, the Parry Sound, Ontario, native was the best hockey player ever. Orr redefined the position of defenseman and led the Bruins to Stanley Cups in 1970 and 1972.
In 1970 he became the only player ever to sweep the league’s top awards — Norris, Ross, Hart Memorial as regular season MVP and Conn Smythe as playoff MP — and scored the Stanley Cup winning goal in overtime, flying through the air to complete a four-game sweep of the St. Louis Blues.
The following year Orr recorded a plus/minus of 124, best in NHL history and quite likely the most unbreakable record in hockey. Only one other player, Larry Robinson of Montreal, ever had a plus/minus over 100 in a season.
Orr broke the mold of the defensive-minded defenseman, winning two scoring titles and leading the NHL in assists on five separate occasions. He won three consecutive MVPs (1970-71-72) and was also the playoff MVP in 1972, when the Bruins defeated the New York Rangers in six games to win their last Stanley Cup.
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Avoid Repetition When Scavenging
Keep the setting fresh and moving without sinking into a repetition of events. Raiding a gas station or grocery store for supplies will be fun and suspenseful the first few times, but after that the players will have a pretty good idea what to expect and begin to lose interest.
The best way to keep them from getting bored is to make sure there’s never such a thing as “just another store” when they need to scavenge for supplies. Mix up weather, terrain, the state of the building and other threats, from a pack of wild dogs to structural damage threatening to dump part of the first floor into the basement. If each looting encounter differs enough, everyone will maintain interest.
Gloss over unimportant scavenging and only focus on the events if they directly matter to the adventure at hand or would be otherwise unique and different from the norm. If you know there are no zombies, bandits, or other threats inside the gas station, there’s really no sense role-playing through the encounter. Just summarize what they got from the looting and move on with the adventure to keep pacing and excitement high.
Unless the PCs are orphans with the personalities of dead fish, they’ll likely have family and friends they’re worried about. In the beginning of the game during character creation, ask every player to list 4-6 people they consider important family or friends. This gives characters a great chance to connect to each other, and provides plenty of adventure hook opportunities.
Are Safe Zones Safe?
Safe havens, safe zones – whatever they wish to be called – the enemy free areas are often either a destination or stop over point the group deals with at some point. Use these for adventure opportunities.
Other survivors can generate interesting encounters. They might take offense at the player group heading for “their rightful sanctuary.” They might also be trying to loot the same store for needed supplies.
Give the safe zone a limited capacity. Perhaps the safe haven has just enough supplies for X amount of people. What will the PCs do about any extra NPCs in their group there isn’t room for?
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Roger Goodell does have an entire league to run, you know. Is there any chance he can take a few minutes every once in a while to attend to the business of the other 31 NFL teams … besides the Saints?
The commissioner now has to check into this latest report of rule-breaking by the Bounty Boys. Goodell hasn’t even given a final ruling on the bounty scandal; he’s still pondering his options on player punishments.
But with Monday’s ESPN report of eavesdropping on the opposing coaches’ box by that Saints’ general manager—who is already being disciplined over the bounties—Goodell’s offseason just got busier. And even more concentrated on one increasingly tainted franchise.
If it actually is tainted by this, that is. With no disrespect intended to ESPN’s reporting, Goodell now has to referee a pretty big he-said, he-said. Somebody is right, and somebody is very, very wrong.
Mickey Loomis, already suspended for half the upcoming season over the bounty scandal, basically has sworn that he’s right. He is strenuously denying the report of his covertly listening on the coaches from his box in the Superdome from 2002 to ’04. A Saints spokesman called the report “1,000 percent false … 1,000 percent inaccurate.” Loomis himself told Fox Sports’ Jay Glazer that it was “absolutely false. … It just didn’t happen.”
That’s not even a non-denial denial, to borrow a phrase made popular during Watergate. By the way, absolutely no one can object to sticking “-gate” at the end of this one, considering the Nixonian nature of the accusation.
Sorry. It might be time to just call this entire walk of shame by this organization, from the bounties to the snooping, “Saints-gate.” Even while the legitimacy of these reports are tested, as falls from grace go, this one is approaching the sound barrier.
But Loomis does deny it in the strongest terms possible, and the Saints are even hinting at legal recourse. Of course, for starters, consider the source. Remember what sealed their fate with the NFL over the bounties: The constant lying and covering-up.
Also, don’t be swayed too fast by the talk of the Saints taking ESPN to task. Plenty of times, that tactic buys time and plays well with the public—and leads to nothing at the end. Last fall, Derek Fisher threw around retraction demands and lawsuit threats after reports surfaced about major rifts between him and the NBA players union during the lockout. Last week, Fisher got a unanimous vote of no-confidence from the union, which began to move toward removing him as president. No suits or retractions yet, though.
Nothing came from all the cries of “sue, sue” in recent years over various allegations of performance-enhancing drug use in baseball—including those in Jose Canseco’s book, “Juiced.” Yes, even Canseco, who invents new ways of inviting ridicule daily, has yet to be hit with such a suit.
So believe Loomis and the Saints at your own risk.
There is time for this latest report to play out. If Goodell wants to find out what’s going on, he can find out. He can’t avoid it, no matter how much it seemed as if his office tiptoed through the Spy-gate investigation into the Patriots. The NFL may have destroyed the evidence, but it didn’t let the Patriots walk away unscathed.
If and when Goodell digs in on this, though, he has to factor this in: It isn’t just ESPN that has beaten him to the punch.
The federal government now has an eye on it.
Not just a little bit of it, either; the local U.S. attorney and the FBI are checking into what was reported, because besides breaking the NFL’s laws, the Saints may have violated federal law. State electronic privacy laws may be in play, too, the report said.
And while it appears the U.S. and state statutes of limitation may keep any charges from being filed—as long as the report that the system was disabled in 2005 is proved correct—the NFL’s arm can reach back as far as it pleases.
Especially on a team that has gone from a source of pride and inspiration to a national symbol of the worst and most dishonorable elements of NFL culture.
Neither ESPN nor the Saints can afford to be wrong. The Saints have a lot to answer to, though, from a lot of people, including their own commissioner (again).
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By Laurel Cardone
Two friends of mine agree on just about everything except how to pack a suitcase. One is convinced the best approach is to spread her clothes absolutely flat in the bottom of the case. The other is a passionate devotee of the rolling-up school of thought. The truth: any garment can be folded in more than one way, and any bag lends itself to more than one method of packing.
Read on, and you'll learn to do the "roll," the "interlock," and the "twin towers," techniques that ensure well-packed luggage, whether it hangs, rolls, or rides on your back.The Interlock
The theory behind the interlock, which works best with standard suitcases and travel packs, is that each piece of clothing folds over or is cushioned by another piece. It's really quite simple:
1. Lay a pair of slacks or a skirt across an open suitcase from north to south, allowing some surplus to drape over each side.
2. Place a sweater from east to west, allowing arms to drape both east and west and tail to drape to the south.
3. Now flip the northern part of the slacks over the top of the sweater, fold the sweater arms in over this, then fold the bottom of the sweater and the southern part of the slacks or skirt over everything. You've created a neat stack of clothing that provides cushioning everywhere a wrinkle wants to be.
You can add as many garments to this construction as you wish. When you've finished, fill in the corners and crevices with underwear, socks, scarves, and so on. Place shoes heel down along the hinges of your suitcase.
A quick aside about packing your shoes: they should never be empty. They should always be stuffed with underwear, socks, a child's shoe, a purse-size travel umbrella. Otherwise, the hollows of your shoes are just wasted space, and those small items are free to wriggle into whatever crevice they please.
We all harbor fears that a customs official will fling open our suitcase, revealing our Victoria's Secret teddy or heart-dappled boxer shorts to the airport community at large. Stuff them in a shoe and he'll never notice. Depending on how fancy you want to get, you can buy cloth drawstring shoe bags, or you can simply place each shoe in its own plastic shopping bag. But do pack shoes separately rather than as a pair -- the positioning possibilities are greater that way.Rock and Roll
Rolling is an easy way to pack clothing, both light and heavy. It works best for duffels and travel packs, but if your trip is casual, you can roll garments for standard suitcases as well.
Let's demonstrate with a T-shirt: Lay the shirt facedown on a flat surface. Fold in the sleeves. Then, with the shirt still facedown, begin to roll it up from the bottom hem. Smooth it as you go, so that no wrinkles are folded in. The collar should wind up on the outside of the roll.
Jeans are a natural for this process. So are dress slacks: Hold them upside down, by the cuffs, and lay them out. Then roll from the cuffs up. This technique even works for sports jackets: Fold the jacket in half lengthwise, tucking the arms inside. Then begin at the top and roll down.
Delicate garments should be placed on top of T-shirts or tissue paper before being rolled. I've had great luck rolling a pique sundress by filling the dress with a plastic dry-cleaning bag, backing and fronting it with two more bags, then rolling it from the hem up.
Skirts can be done this way as well. Put a plastic dry-cleaning bag inside the skirt to pad it, then either roll it or fold it in half lengthwise over another garment to pad the crease, and then roll. Soon, you'll be able to roll anything.Twin Towers
This is the way that most people put clothing into their luggage. Fold your clothes and place them in the case in two neat stacks. If you know your trip schedule, pile them chronologically -- the first day's outfit on top, the second day's clothes below that, and so forth. This will eliminate the need to paw through everything to unearth that purple polo shirt you meant to wear in the opening-day golf tournament. Fill in around the edges and in the center with underwear and socks, bathing suits, etc. Try to pack snugly so that things will not move around in the suitcase. If it has interior straps that you can use to secure clothing, use them.
Alternatively, you can roll your clothes and then stack them neatly like cigarettes in a box. Again, if you lay them in so that the things you plan to wear first are on top, you'll have an easier time getting to your gear.
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Growth in the region will be stoked by stronger demand in Canada and Mexico; the sourcing of more locally built vehicles in place of import models; increased exports; and a buildup of inventory, especially by Asian auto makers.
Nissan to build Infiniti JX in U.S.
North American light-vehicle production should reach 14.5 million units in 2012, up 10.5% from prior-year’s 13.1 million, WardsAuto forecasts, based on expected LV sales of 14.0 million.
The forecast calls for the highest production volume since 15.0 million assemblies in 2007.
Growth in the region will be stoked by stronger demand in Canada and Mexico; the sourcing of more locally built vehicles in place of import models; increased exports; and inventory buildup.
An increase in days’ supply will be especially important for Asian auto makers that suffered supply-chain disruptions in 2011 resulting from natural catastrophes in Japan and Thailand.
Adding to the case for double-digit gains in 2012 will be increased sales competition as auto makers struggle to maintain or recoup market share. A slew of new or redesigned products coming this year also will fuel output as OEMs seek to draw car buyers to volume models.
Most of these key products, and import replacements, will be in the small- and midsize-car segments.
The biggest year-over-year growth by volume is expected to come from Honda, Toyota,and . , which closed two assembly plants in 2011 that were building aging products now eliminated from its lineup, is forecast for a downturn in production this year.
Longer term, WardsAuto forecasts increased demand and additional capacity for vehicles replacing overseas-sourced models will support an average 5% year-over-year growth in LV production from 2013 through 2015.
Output is expected to be relatively flat for 2016-2017 as the industry calculates the ramifications of the stricter emissions and fuel-economy standards coming in 2016, which already are causing auto makers to reset capacity to a bigger mix of more fuel-efficient vehicles.
If the current WardsAuto outlook plays out, demand and, therefore, production should surge again at the end of the decade and surpass the highs expected between now and 2017.
WardsAuto is calling for total vehicle production, including medium- and heavy-duty trucks, to reach 14.9 million units in 2012, for a 10.3% gain on 2011’s 13.5 million. This will be followed by a 5.3% year-over-year increase in 2013 to 15.6 million units, topping 17 million by 2015. | <urn:uuid:02ca809d-f270-4bc2-8e27-66af4e5f939f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://wardsauto.com/plants-amp-production/double-digit-production-gains-forecast-north-america-2012 | 2013-06-19T12:20:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941835 | 538 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Different types of crossbuilding: http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service/Concepts/CrossDevelopment#Types_of_Crossbuild
A bit terminology:
For the "native"+emulation cross-build (as in: without cross-compilers), we use qemu-arm. The callenge is now to keep the environment but add speed through cross-compilers (="cross"+emulation).
With all changes in place, we reach really good speed. E.g. for:
Build time in minutes
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By Angela Busch
Thursday, January 25, 2007
As female cross-country runners continue to suffer the highest incidence of eating disorders of any college athletes a survivor of the problem is probing the links between underweight runners and osteoporosis.
COLUMBIA, Mo. (WOMENSENEWS)--Pam Hinton sits quietly at her desk in the University of Missouri's Department of Nutritional Sciences building, where she is researching the problem of eating disorders among female athletes, specifically runners.
It's a problem that Hinton understands intimately; having herself suffered anorexia and the loss of her menstrual period during the late 1980s, when she was a cross-country runner as an undergraduate attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Hinton told Women's eNews that her coach held weigh-ins where each runner's body fat was measured in the locker room, while the rest of the team waited their turn. Amid subtle competition about who could have the lowest body-fat percentage, Hinton decided one summer to see how good she could be.
She dropped 10 pounds. At the first training run of the season, she said she was able to keep up with all the top athletes, including Suzy Favor, who became a three-time Olympian. She continued to drop weight and run faster, going from around 125 pounds to 98 by the next summer. She had 7 percent body fat and had stopped having her period.
"That kind of scared me," Hinton said.
The next fall, before Hinton's senior cross-country season, the team doctor told her she couldn't keep losing weight and training with the team, so Hinton chose to forgo her final year of athletic eligibility.
All she had left was an eating disorder that haunted her for more than five years, even after she was hired as an assistant professor of nutritional sciences and dietetics at Missouri in 2000.
In the end, she says it was only after a car accident ended her ability to run and see herself as a runner that that her eating disorder finally faded away.
"I never thought about it that way before," she said. "But maybe I did need to stop running to finally beat it."
Today Hinton bikes for fitness and has quit running altogether, but suffers from osteoporosis. She suspects the condition was caused by her eating disorder, which caused her to lose her menstrual period and could have restricted her supply of nutrients critical to maintaining bone density.
Hinton, who researches eating disorders in runners, says bone density is almost always lower among underweight female runners. Pages of statistics, she says, document further health risks to participants in women's cross-country, which has the highest incidence of eating disorders, followed by women's gymnastics, women's swimming, and women's track and field events, according to a 2005 study by the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
In the past, eating disorders were more common in gymnastics than in cross-country. But as the popularity and intensity of competition in cross-country has increased, so has the proportion of athletes with eating disorders.
Hinton speaks each year at the University of Missouri's youth cross-country camps for local students in grades 6-12, telling them it's not worth it to be faster and too skinny.
But she says each year she has high school girls tell her, "I haven't had my period in months and my family doctor says it's normal."
The warnings about excessive weight loss is hard for runners to take as seriously as their need for speed, agrees Kim Moore, a Division I distance runner four years ago.
Today Moore, a college graduate, continues to run every day and to compete in locally organized races, saying she is addicted to the sport.
She recently moved to Arizona from Missouri with a group of runner friends so they could have a year-round climate for running. She has gotten faster since college and hasn't backed off on her training whatsoever.
"It's about being fast," Moore said, "because weight, for a lot of people, is a big part of it. Even if your coaches aren't making that an issue, all you have to do is look around and notice that basically 99 percent of the girls who are fast are thinner than the average college-age girl."
The effects of distance running on the female body are evident in Moore and her friends. She said many of the young women who run with her suffer from amenorrhea, or the loss of menstruation, which can, over a sustained period of time decrease bone density and cause the early onset of osteoporosis.
The quick fix among today's athletes, Moore says, is to take birth control pills to jump-start a period.
Since no research has been done of the effects of giving estrogen to such young women, Hinton worries about the trend and the fact that therapy for young women with amenorrhea is based on treatment of post-menopausal women with low bone density.
Rick McGuire is the head of sports psychology for USA Track and Field, a national governing body for track and field and cross-country on all levels, from youth to Olympic to professional, based in Indianapolis. Many cross-country runners are also track athletes in distance events.
McGuire says coaches need to break out of the mind-set of athletic success at any cost, in order to teach distance runners that their health isn't worth sacrificing.
"In women's cross country, the ones who sacrifice more, some of them end up in first place," said McGuire. "Some of them end up in the hospital . . . You've got to explode the myth of that sports cliche, 'You've got to be willing to pay the price.' We've got to start teaching that that's wrong. We're not going to pay the price of our health."
Angela Busch is a freelance sports reporter based in Overland Park, Kan. She is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has worked as a sports reporter for the Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune, Minneapolis Star Tribune and Kansas City Star.
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Prepared remarks of
American Association of Law Libraries
July 23, 1997
I am pleased to appear before you this afternoon to discuss the
Administration's views on how we can more effectively manage the Government's
printing and information dissemination activities, and our approach to the
reform of Title 44. I am particularly pleased with the spirit of cooperation
which the library community, the Congress, and other parties are taking are
bring to this effort.
For four years now, we have made very little progress. Only now is it
becoming clear to all parties that there are real Constitutional issues, and
real issues about the most cost-effective ways to disseminate government
information. Meanwhile, we are seeing the technology crash ahead.
So you can imagine my pleasure, and indeed relief, when the new Staff Director
of the Joint Committee on Printing, Eric Peterson, came to OMB and said "let*,s
solve this in our lifetime." Our response was to note, as former OMB Director
Alice Rivlin testified in 1994, and as Sally Katzen testified in 1995 and again
in 1996, that three problems must be addressed if we are to have a successful
- the Constitutional issues described by the Justice Department
must be resolved;
- the Government Printing Office must be put on a firmer and
more businesslike footing; and,
- mechanisms must be developed to preserve and enhance
the role of the Depository Library Program.
Mr. Peterson assured us that everything was on the table, and that we could
dispense with preconceived notions.
Accordingly, the Administration is committed to working with the Congress to
comprehensively reform the printing and related provisions of Title 44 to
assure that Congress' mandate for an informed citizenry is met in the face of
advancing technology. I believe we are making progress.
First, I firmly believe that the long-standing separation of powers issue can
Second, I think there is receptivity to permitting the Executive branch to
determine its own printing policies, under statutory principles. This would
provide greater flexibility to make the transition carefully, humanely, and
cost-effectively to a more electronic way of doing business. Perhaps more
importantly, this approach would lead to Executive branch printing policy that
is developed in close cooperation with the customer agencies. By having the
Executive branch, in effect, "own" the policy, I believe that many of the
problems expressed regarding "compliance" with the present defective scheme
will be alleviated. We also believe that increased flexibility will, by the
force of competition, reduce the costs and improve the timeliness and quality
of producing government documents. Such improvement is an absolute must in
today's budget environment. On this point, we intend to rely even more than we
do today on the commercial printing industry to meet government requirements,
and to assure that industry continues to have convenient, centralized access to
information about government printing opportunities.
The third area is the need to preserve and enhance public access to
government information. Accordingly, the core functions of the Superintendent
of Documents -- cataloguing, managing the sales program, and supporting the
Depository Library Program -- should be retained. In addition, a system of
strong but practical checks and balances need to be in place to assure that any
new printing regime in fact enhances public access through the Depository
Libraries. The agency buy-in I mentioned earlier is a key part of that
system. But we also recognize that incentives, and disincentives, will need to
be built in so that the system operates organically to assure public access,
without requiring detailed "policing" by the Congress or OMB.
Beyond revamping the current arrangements for information on paper, we must
deal with information dissemination in the electronic era. In essence we must
assure that the electronic bookshelves of the 21st Century are continuously
restocked. We must do this in a way that recognizes and enables the migration
towards an even more electronic government and a more electronic Depository
Library Program, solves the *&fugitive*8 document problem, and does so in a
manner consistent with the Freedom of Information Act and the Copyright Act.
On the one hand, simply stating that all government information of potential
informative value to the public must be accessible through the library program
is too simplistic. On the other hand, it would not be appropriate for
legislation to spell out with specificity what particular technologies and
standards are to be used to achieve the general goal.
Accordingly, we look to the future of information dissemination and the
depository libraries as one which relies in substantial part on distributed
network-based information dissemination -- for example by using the Internet
and the World-Wide Web which is experiencing such explosive growth and is in
part the very source of our dilemma -- in lieu of physically handling and
housing great volumes of paper publications. Our challenge is to construct a
strong program that meets the needs of the libraries and American public,
ensures permanent access, has an adequate coordinating and oversight mechanism,
and at the same time capitalizes on advanced search capabilities, data
warehousing, distributed networks, and decentralized dissemination from
Perhaps not surprisingly, we believe the result may look similar to the
government*,s new information technology model itself -- centralized policy
oversight with distributed management, acquisition, implementation, and
operations. We have been using this model to implement the Information
Technology Management Reform Act of 1996 (ITMRA). The ITMRA replaced a thirty
year system of centralized policy and operational micro-management with a
system empowering agencies to manage their own IT investments, while at the
same time holding them accountable. The result has been an enthusiastic
embrace of these new duties and responsibilities and an unprecedented level of
cooperation among agencies, and between the agencies and OMB.
Central among its provisions, the ITMRA established agency Chief Information
Officers -- who are accountable directly to their agency heads -- as the
responsible focal points for information resources management. This includes
compliance with the public information dissemination requirements of the
Paperwork Reduction Act and A-130. Accordingly, it may be appropriate to link
the requirements regarding printing and information dissemination to the other
information resources management responsibilities of the Chief Information
Turning to specifics, as you know we have been engaged in a series of quiet
discussions with staff of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration.
While many details remain unresolved, the broad outlines of an approach are
emerging. I understand that Eric Peterson, the JCP Staff Director shared our
general approach with some of you yesterday, and I want to take the opportunity
today to do the same. As Eric mentioned, this is only a preliminary approach,
and one that we are very much interested in putting on the table for
discussion. Title 44 should be amended soon, but such an undertaking should
not be done in haste. Accordingly such discussion and consultation is very
There are perhaps six key features to the emerging solution that are worth
- The GPO will continue to operate in the Legislative Branch handling the
production and procurement of Congressional printing, and available to
Executive and Judicial Branch agencies as an optional source of printing.
- The Superintendent of Documents will continue to be a Legislative Branch
employee, responsible for the Depository Library Program and for the
cataloguing and sales programs.
- Executive branch agencies will be permitted increased choice in how they
acquire printing services. They may choose to buy from or through GPO as they
do today, they may procure through one of a handful of Executive branch
"Executive agents," or directly from private sector printers. We will limit
the scope of agency "in-house" printing, and all procurement opportunities will
be posted through a centralized system for the benefit of both the SupDocs and
the private sector printing industry.
- Through the use of procurement regulations, agencies will be required to
notify the Superintendent of Documents prior to the production of information
products that are likely to be of interest to the public, so that the
Superintendent may "ride" the production order for the Depository Libraries.
- Failure by agencies to make timely notification to the Superintendent of
Documents will be prevented and, if necessary, corrected, by a variety of
safeguards, including a requirement that the agencies provide the copies of the
fugitive documents to the SupDocs at their own expense.
- On the electronic side, provision will be made for long-term access to
I am confident that these discussions are producing a balanced approach. It
is our intent to circulate widely a draft bill that would codify these
arrangements in August, with a goal of introducing consensus legislation early
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· CarSim is a software tool for simulating and analyzing the way cars, light trucks and SUVs respond to steering, braking and acceleration inputs.. It is used globally by OEMs, suppliers, racing teams, universities and students in all types of vehicle simulators, from tabletop systems to sophisticated moving base motion platforms. These applications allow researchers, engineers and developers to study a very wide range of subjects from driver behavior and accident avoidance, to vehicle calibration and tuning using simulators equipped with real world vehicle dynamics in a controlled, repeatable laboratory environment.
· CarSim Trailer is an extension used for simulating the dynamic behavior of vehicles including cars, light trucks, light utility vehicles and SUVs towing one-and two-axle trailers
· TruckSim extends the concept to cover heavy-duty vehicles with dual wheels, asymmetric steering systems, multiple axles and single or multiple trailers.
· BikeSim is a software tool for simulating and analyzing the way motorcycles and scooters repond to steering, braking and acceleration inputs. It uses the same technology as CarSim
TruckSim, CarSim and CarSim Trailer are extensible and compatible with a wide range of software products and our hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulators.
For Further Information please follow the links below:
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O Tanenbaum: Ready for an Evergreen Revolution
Dec 22, 2010
By Dean Kleckner - www.truthabouttrade.org
When President Obama called for an “Evergreen Revolution” last month, he was thinking about agriculture rather than Christmas. If he wants a holiday theme song for his idea, however, he could do a lot worse than “O Tanenbaum,” the popular carol: “Your branches green delight us / They are green when summer days are bright / They are green when winter snow is white.”
An evergreen is a plant that keeps its leaves in all seasons. The Evergreen Revolution is a call for all-season agriculture: the development of crops that can grow in stressful conditions for our collective food security.
Obama talked about the Evergreen Revolution in his address to India’s parliament on November 8. “Together, we can strengthen agriculture,” he said. “As farmers and rural areas face the effects of climate change and drought, we’ll work together to spark a second, more sustainable Evergreen Revolution.”
The term doesn’t originate with Obama--he’s just the latest person to use it. The Indian scientist M. S. Swaminathan (first World Food Prize winner) started to popularize the notion of an Evergreen Revolution more than a decade ago. A precise definition is elusive--it can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. In general, however, the Evergreen Revolution evokes a movement to improve agricultural productivity without rendering environmental harm.
It also harks back to its predecessor, the Green Revolution, pioneered by Norman Borlaug. This was the effort a generation ago to help farmers in poor nations adopt better seeds, fertilizer, and irrigation. Its success is a root cause of the world’s current population boom. Without the Green Revolution, we wouldn’t have enough food to feed our planet of over 6 billion people- and growing.
The Green Revolution was a global phenomenon, but India is often considered its epicenter. “Cooperation between Indian and American researchers and scientists sparked the Green Revolution,” said Obama in New Delhi. Then he suggested that a similar partnership could ignite the Evergreen Revolution. “Today, India is a leader in using technology to empower farmers,” he said. “And the United States is a leader in agricultural productivity and research.”
The Green Revolution pursued several strategies--and so will the Evergreen Revolution. At its center, however, must be an unflinching commitment to biotechnology. Although GM crops aren’t a cure-all for the world’s food challenges, they’re an essential part of any serious plan to boost productivity in an environmentally sustainable way.
India’s Swaminathan has called for the careful acceptance of biotechnology: “You can use biotechnology for bioterrorism, or you can use it for biohappiness. I feel we must try to use all the technologies in this world for biohappiness, which means people have a good life, better health, better food, as a result of the technology.”
Unfortunately, there was a "missed opportunity" to apply those principles in India earlier this year. Researchers have developed a form of GM brinjal (eggplant) that resists pests. Although a scientific panel said the crop was safe for human consumption, the government surrendered to political pressure from anti-biotech activists and refused to approve the plant. Instead, it called for more study. Swaminathan supported the delay, saying that public attitudes need to change.
He’s right about that: Public attitudes do need to change. In India and elsewhere, there’s too much unfounded fear of biotechnology. Correcting this problem, however, will require leadership from the likes of Swaminathan. He needs to speak out.
So do farmers. More than anybody else, we understand how biotech crops can improve a nation’s quality of life. This is why millions of small-scale farmers in developing countries have chosen to grow GM crops. As soon as they have access to these tools, they want to make use of them. Over the last decade and a half, farmers, world-wide, have planted and harvested more than 2.5 billion acres of genetically enhanced crops.
If the Evergreen Revolution is to succeed, it will have to ensure that widespread access to biotechnology is one of its bedrock principles.
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The “Pay-for-Delay” Ban Dies Quietly in Congress
By Daniel Hougendobler, JD/MPH Candidate, Class of 2012, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
The end of 2010 was marked by a flurry of legislative activity in the U.S. Congress. Congressional Democrats fought desperately to pass their agenda before facing a far less friendly political landscape. The stakes were high, including a potential government shutdown, the repeal of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, and billions of dollars in tax cuts.
In the midst of these high-profile debates, Congress quietly dropped an obscure, technical bill that one government agency claimed would have saved U.S. consumers billions of dollars. The proposed bill was known as the “Preserve Access to Affordable Generics Act.” It would have made certain types of settlements between pharmaceutical companies and generic manufacturers that delay the entry of generic medications into the market, commonly known as “pay-for-delay” settlements, presumptively anti-competitive.
Pay-for-delay settlements stem from a provision of the Hatch-Waxman Act that grants a 180-day period of market exclusivity to the first generic drug manufacturer to file, but only if the generic does not infringe on any valid patents. This market exclusivity does not apply to an “authorized generic,” which is the brand-name company’s own generic version of its product. In the hope of getting to market earlier, generic manufacturers have become more aggressive in attacking the validity of pharmaceutical patents. A 2002 Federal Trade Commission (FTC) study found, “generic applicants prevailed in nearly 75% of the patent litigation ultimately resolved by a court decision.” In the majority of cases in which the generic manufacturer prevails, the consumer benefits by gaining earlier access to a low-cost generic competitor to the brand-name drug.
To avoid the high costs of patent litigation and uncertainty of trial, brand-name patent holders and generic manufacturers challenging the patent often prefer to negotiate out-of-court settlement agreements. These settlements can take several forms, one of which is essentially an agreement by the brand-name pharmaceutical manufacturer to pay the generic manufacturer to delay its entry into the pharmaceutical market. The brand-name manufacturer can agree to pay cash to the generic manufacturer to drop its claim, it can offer some percentage of the profits from its monopoly, or it can agree not to enter the generic market, thus granting the generic manufacturer a 180-day period of “generic exclusivity.”
Pay-for-delay settlements are a win-win for pharmaceutical patent holders and generic manufacturers. The brand-name patent holder is able to maintain market exclusivity for longer than it would had it lost the suit, and the generic manufacturer gets some valuable consideration, either cash or “generic exclusivity,” that it receives only as a result of the settlement.
Opponents of these agreements claim that they are anti-competitive and point to the huge financial burden placed on consumers who must continue to pay monopoly prices for drugs that might otherwise have been available in generic form. A recent FTC study concluded that the cost to consumers of such agreements was likely to reach $35 billion over 10 years. A more conservative estimate from the Congressional Budget Office still anticipated $2.5 billion in savings.
However, the pharmaceutical industry has questioned the validity of these studies. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the primary pharmacy and biotechnology advocacy group, commissioned a study which attacked the assumptions of the FTC and CBO studies and suggested that savings were likely to be significantly lower.
Another scholar agrees that banning these settlements could do more harm than good. He argues that banning these settlements would force courts to evaluate pay-for-delay settlements. Courts, he argues, would misunderstand the unique role of pharmaceutical patents and invalidate patents that ought to be protected. This would result in reduced innovation. He concludes that these agreements are necessary to preserve incentives for pharmaceutical innovation. He further argues, “widespread insurance prevents patients from being priced out of patented drugs.” Therefore, he claims, consumers are less likely to feel the effects of any inflated prices.
However, while insurance may be widespread, it is far from universal. A 2010 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) survey found that approximately 25 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 64 lacked health insurance for at least some period during the previous year. Even more are underinsured or are subject to high deductibles. For that significant proportion of the population who pay for medications out-of-pocket, whether a generic has entered the market can make an enormous difference.
The executive branch has more generally rejected the argument that pay-for-delay agreements are necessary for innovation. The FTC points out that there are other ways to settle patent litigation without resorting to pay-for-delay, and concludes that the burden on consumers is too high. In fact, the FTC has aggressively prosecuted pay-for-delay agreements as anti-competitive, but the courts have consistently found that such agreements do not violate anti-trust law. This has led for opponents of these agreements to call for a legislative solution.
The response to that call was the “Preserve Access to Affordable Generics Act.” This bill was most recently introduced as a rider to the 2011 Senate Appropriations Bill, only to be dropped at the end of the session as Congress chose to pass a continuing resolution rather than a new appropriations bill. This proposed legislation made reverse payments from pharmaceutical patent holders to generic manufacturers in exchange for delaying the generic’s entry into market presumptively anti-competitive. The burden would have been placed on the parties to “demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that the pro-competitive benefits of the agreement outweigh the anti-competitive effects of the agreement.”
The future of the pay-for-delay ban is in doubt. In the current Congress, the ban barely made it out of the Senate Appropriations, surviving on a 15-15 vote. Despite the Democratically-controlled Congress, previous efforts, including attaching the bill to the healthcare reform legislation, have failed. With Republicans taking control of the House and gaining substantially in the Senate, the future of the bill appears bleak. Absent a political solution, the courts will continue to decide the issue. Although it has declined the opportunity to hear the issue in the past, the Supreme Court a recent cert petition presents the issue squarely, asking “whether . . . a brand drug maker's substantial payment to a competing generic drug maker to forgo judicial testing of the patent and restrict entry is per se lawful under the Sherman Act.”
Whether legislation is necessary to prevent undue burden on consumers, or whether pay-for-delay agreements foster innovation is a source of legitimate debate. However, with billions of dollars, and likely the health and lives of many of America’s uninsured and underinsured at stake, the question of pay-for-delay settlements deserves an open and vigorous debate rather than a quiet and unnoticed death.
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Facebook Messenger launched in the Android Market this week, bringing an inclusive means of staying in touch with friends. With a separate app for the messenger tool, you can send texts to individuals or entire groups. DSLR Controller also brings an innovative app to Android, allowing you to control your Canon EOS camera via USB. Other interesting apps this week include Fox Sports Mobile and SmartyPig.
Facebook Messenger (Free)
Facebook’s launched a standalone app for messaging with friends, with an air of privacy that many users will enjoy. Send texts to individuals or groups, saving the profile updates for the regular Facebook app. You can share photos and links as well. The best part of the app is that it will send a message to a Facebook friend or contact even if they don’t have the app installed on their phone. Messages can be sent as text, email or to the regular mail service on Facebook, depending on their main profile settings. Facebook Messenger came at just the right time, as rival Google+ offers similar group messaging features.
DSLR Controller ($8.56)
A range of camera-compatible apps are emerging in the Android Market. DSLR Controller gives you full control of your Canon EOS DSLR camera from your phone through your USB cable. It streams a live view of the camera directly, far slicker than the iPhone version of the app. Manage your camera settings including exposure, focus point, shutter speed and more. Then just snap away! The app is in early beta, so expect some quirks as testing takes place.
FOX Sports Mobile (Free)
FOX Sports has a new Android app for fans, covering the full gamut. From NFL to NBA, NHL to golf, this app delivers news, scores, stats and standings. There’s also video highlights, pre- and post-game interviews and news and analysis from your favorite FOX Sports writers and anchors. With the football season ramping-up its a good time for FOX to to expand its Android offerings. Local news is also included in the app, and you can select news to follow on the "My Sports" tab.
SmartyPig, the app that lets you reach your savings goals along with the collective help of friends and family, is now helping you find nearby deals. With an update to its Android app, SmartyPig searches for local cash-back rewards, mapped out in real-time. This appears alongside your account balance and transaction history, so you know exactly where you stand financially. You’ll even earn cash-back on some purchases, which you can also track on the app. And if you need to transfer funds, you can do that with the SmartyPig app too.
Norton Mobile Security Lite (Free)
Norton had expanded its family of Android security apps, launching a free version for users. It offers a few necessary features for keeping malware and thieves away from your phone’s content. You can remotely lock a lost or stolen device via SMS, and scan files and apps for malicious malware that could steal your personal data and slow your phone down. Norton’s got a couple other mobile apps, including one for data backup, and another for managing your Android apps. This new security app from Norton rounds out its protective mobile tools.
Scottrade Mobile (Free)
Secure online trading, now on your phone. Scottrade’s launched a new Android app with real-time streaming quotes, market news, analyst reports and details from its network of insiders. You’ll also get price alerts for changes in the market, with account management features and trading for existing users. Given the turmoil in the US economy, it’s a fine time to have mobile access to investment information, and keep a close eye on the market. | <urn:uuid:c786eee3-0f32-4d55-ad2b-13b48b819b98> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.androidapps.com/tech/articles/9056-facebook-messenger-tops-android-apps-of-the-week | 2013-06-19T12:55:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935526 | 779 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Behind the Mask
Writers for the Johannesburg-based website, Behind The Mask, do more than report on the LGBT community. They help build it.
Chronicling developments of the LGBT movement across 36 African countries, www.mask.org.za is a site unlike any other. Click on the homepage and meet a lesbian activist from the notoriously homophobic state of Uganda; read an update on the trial of two Egyptian men suspected of being gay; or skim a summary explaining the new African Court on Human and People's Rights. Surf the bulletin board and you'll observe a community connecting on topics ranging from AIDS to queer youth to lesbian visibility.
Homophobia is rife throughout the continent, and with the exception of South Africa no other African country offers protection from discrimination based on sexual orientation. Hungry for information and links to community, Behind The Mask has become an accurate and safe haven for thousands in Africa and around the world. Unlike print media, its content can't be banned, intercepted, or censored. The Internet is by far the most cost-effective way to enact Behind The Mask's mission of disseminating information, mobilizing activists and encouraging mainstream media to present a more balanced approach to LGBT issues.
When first launched in 1999, Behind The Mask's founders were determined not to fall into the trap of marginalizing women, as was so often was the case in the LGBT movement. Four years later they've made good on their promise- the site's commitment to lesbian issue is extensive. The Women's area is a potpourri of activism, artwork, poetry and interactive communication. The Gal Next Store section highlights the lives and work of women-artists, activists, professionals and sportswomen; and Janelle's Journey features reporting from a BTM staffer on the disturbing increase of hate crimes committed against black lesbians living in outer townships.
Keenly aware of the digital divide that's pervasive in Africa, the seven staff and five board members of Behind The Mask have created offline programs to reach those without Internet access. The Journalism Training Program helps develop skills of budding journalists from the black lesbian and gay community. A former office cleaner sat in on one of their journalism classes. Unbeknownst to her, she had a flair for writing, and today she serves as a senior reporter for the site.
The Women's Computer Skills Program was specifically designed to serve community Janelle writes about. Many have been have survived wrenching verbal and physical abuse, and many have been denied an education. So in addition to technical training, classes include life skills training: how to be self- motivated, manage money, and find a job. The Beadwork Program is an offshoot of the training and helps students gain some financial sustainability during the course. Four classes have graduated so far-and every graduate has gone on to find employment.
Behind the Mask (Johannesburg, South Africa) publishes an independent website magazine on LGBT affairs in Africa. BTM also operates an array of offline communication projects to empower the LGBT community, including a Computer Skills Training Program for lesbians denied formal education. www.mask.org.za | <urn:uuid:29458b26-1609-4efb-9dce-7dd87bb56b8c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.astraeafoundation.org/who-we-are/meet-a-grantee/behind-the-mask | 2013-06-19T12:48:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959247 | 639 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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the title says Avengers. That encompasses AI/AA/XMEN. ExSo is attacking on their own accord, if they want to start a thread they can. I don't get their BR's.
Haha, attacking on their own accord, you asked them for help thats obvious, at least admit it, we asked UN for help and not afraid to admit it.
AI, AA, ExSo, 1 of their farms with 20 squads vs TrA, DEAD, UN(Just 1 alliance, not all like they try to make it look like)
Thats the alliances right now fighting, but you will see more popping up soon and joining the war
AI already asked us for peace to fight DEAD, UN for peace to fight us.. you cant seem to fight evenly even with all the bragging your doing
@Matt Dont know if you used reds or not, but we both know theres heavy boosters in your alliance :p
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Review: Best Anti-Cellulite/Body Firming Creams & Treatments For Slimmer Legs, Thighs And Butt Areas
26 May 2011
There are many anti-cellulite and body firming products on the market today. But cellulite (also referred to as orange peel or dimpled skin) is a very difficult condition to treat. The American Academy of Dermatology
defines cellulite as a hormonally based condition unique to women. It is caused by a herniation or rupture of fat through the fibrous tissue and the subsequent pulling back of this tissue that creates dimpled areas.
As a cosmetic chemist who has formulated a few anti-cellulite products, I can attest to the fact that products on the market do not permanently get rid of cellulite. But some of them can somewhat reduce the look or appearance of it.
We recommend the following products on the market because they have clinical data that shows that they do provide some improvement in the look of cellulite as well as test results that show that they can firm and tone legs, thighs and butt areas.
Claims: Reduction of buttocks (1cm), hips (1.2cm), thighs (1.5cm)
Key Ingredient: Biofibrine
Biofibrine acts in 2 ways:
•Prevent collagen fibers from hardening to fight against the aggravation of cellulite
•Stimulate the synthesis of new collagen
Retails for $50.
Caffeine: Triggers the efficiency of lipids combustion.
Lipocidine: Stimulates the expression of a protein that commands the elimination of lipids during a calorie restriction.
In 7 days: Skin texture is smoother
In 2 weeks: Skin is firmer and more elastic
In 4 weeks: Visible loss of up to 1 cellulite grade
Retails for $39.50.
Claims: Instantly skin feels firmer and more toned.
Glaucine: It stimulates lipolysis, prevents the formation of new fat cells increases the firmness of skin by decreasing water retention and fat deposits.
Saccharomyces Ferment Filtrate: has skin smoothing and firming properties;
Also contains Caffeine and Biotin
93% showed firmer skin on abdomen and thighs.
Upto 50% more lifted look to buttocks.
Consumer Perception Study:
In just 2 weeks 82% of women saw a more contoured looking body. Based on women who expressed an opinion:
Overtime reduces the look of excess skin on stomach, hips, thighs and buttocks.
Retails for $25.
Shitake Extract: Improves the skin’s texture and provides visibly firmer looking, resilient skin.
100% of women showed visible improvement in their skin in just 2 weeks.
Retails for $8.99.
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Jason Bateman has closed a deal to star in the Horrible Bosses sequel.
The Hit And Run actor is set to return for the sequel to the 2011 comedy alongside co-stars Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
In the first film, the trio played stressed workers who try to kill off their bosses, played by Colin Farrell, Jennifer Aniston and Kevin Spacey.
Three new actors will play the bosses in the sequel, but it seems the door is open for Jennifer and Kevin - whose characters weren't killed off - to make cameo appearances.
Jamie Foxx is currently in negotiations about reprising his role as a "murder mentor" and Seth Gordon is returning to direct. | <urn:uuid:a2ee8bb0-ecaa-44d3-b3a5-b032b4f64bb4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/film-tv/news/bateman-set-for-horrible-bosses-2-29122445.html | 2013-06-19T12:47:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974421 | 149 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
|You'll find yourself left at an old, decrepit shack, where you wait, with wary, restless anticipation, to meet with, "those who come from the woods".......|
|Just 2 miles away is Carowinds Theme Park. Enjoy huge roller coasters, entertaining shows, food and a water park. Carowinds also features a haunted house extravaganza in October called "Scarowinds".|
|Charlotte/Fort Mill KOA Campground is a popular destination for Race Fans with the Lowe's Motor Speedway a short 25 mile drive on Interstates 77 & 85. We do not provide a shuttle to the track.|
- Discovery Place & The Nature Museum of Charlotte
- Lake Wylie for fishing and a ramp for your boat is 10 mins. Away
- Antique shopping in Fort Mill and Pineville within 10 mins.
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Pujiang Star Hotel Shanghai Xujiahui Branch Introduction
Pujiang Star Hotel Shanghai Xujiahui Branch is a budget hotel,you'll enjoy your stay here with its commitment to service and focus on hospitality.
The hotel is situated in Shanghai Xujiahui Business Center.Opened in 2009, Pujiang Star Hotel Shanghai Xujiahui Branchstaff with their excellent service ensure your stay will be a fantastic one.
Pujiang Star Hotel Shanghai Xujiahui Branch accepts payment by cash or by card, Peony Card, Golden Harvest Card, Great Wall Card, Dragon Card, Pacific Card.
The hotel is an easy walking distance away from Xujiahui Shopping Center, Shanghai Stadium, 80000 people's Stadium, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, West Huaihai Road, Shanghai Film Center, Shanghai Conservatory Of Music, Shanghai Library, Cité Bourgogne, Medical Center of Fudan University, Tongren Hospital, 80000-people Stadium, Zhongshan Hospital, Longhua Hotel, Panyu Cultural Square, Shenfeng Jin Highway, guest can also take a short taxi ride to.
Meanwhile well positioned with distance(Kilometers) to: The Bund of Shanghai(9km), Shanghai Expo Building(6.3km), People's Square(7km), Nanjing Road Pedestrian Mall(7.1km), Shanghai New International Expo Center (SNIEC)(13.4km), Shanghai Pudong International Airport(42.1km), Lu Jia Zhui(9.9km), Jing'an Temple(3.1km), Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport(10.4km), Shanghai Everbright Covention & Exhibition Center(4.3km), Shanghai Railway Station(6.4km), Shanghai YuYuan(8.1km), Middle Huaihai Road Commercial Street(3.6km), Oriental Pearl TV Tower(10.1km), Xujiahui Shopping Center(1.6km), Shanghai Mart(3.6km). | <urn:uuid:d9e13b69-8822-408e-b53e-5eb332cc7157> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.chinahotels.net/en-hotel-00201313-pujiang_star_hotel_shanghai_xujiahui_branch.html | 2013-06-19T12:18:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.790168 | 420 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Posted: 5/24/2012 8:17:20 AM
Originally Posted by cashin
I'm not ignoring anything & you don't seem to want to understand, lol. I don't know why the gf did or didn't do whatever - from what I understand she was so upset about T's death that she spent that nit in the hospital & later it came out she didn't want to get involved.
However the fight started, imo Z provoked it either by fear & intimidation or physically grabbing or trying to hold him or a combo of both. You Z supporters keep trying to put a ribbon & bow on this thing, but imo you can't even get the wrappin paper straight
I can't get the wrapping paper straight?
Er, I'm not the one who believes things that a) are not true and b) have no evidence to support them.
You're not "ignoring" anything?
Really? Because you're ignoring the fact that the GF didn't call anybody by simply pretendnig she didn't want to get involved.
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Portable On-Demand Disposable Unlimited Mannequins v1.5 (aka SPODUM)
- a NEAR-Total Mannequin System Remake mod by SLuckyD
* IF UPGRADING FROM A PREVIOUS VERSION: See special note below BEFORE installing this version. *
- SIXTY SEVEN (67) different races/types of Mannequins
- Change any Mannequin's RACE or GENDER at will
- ALL the HUMANOID races, MALE and FEMALE; ALL of which will display the following:
- Armor, boots, gloves
- Rings, amulets, diadems, helmets & masks
- Weapons and Shields
- Bows and Quivers
- Weapons are equipped, an optional pose allows them to be drawn.
- Over TWO DOZEN different creatures, machines, animals, and undead (all of which may only be used as storage)
- ALL Mannequins also function as PERMANENT STORAGE, allowing Player to store ANY kind of item
(WARNING: they'll consume most types of your consumables!)
- Real-time REPOSITIONING is available (with a separate vertically raise/lower option)
- Choose from different POSES/IDLES to play
- Optional Living Mode behavior setting breathes life into Mannequins (yet they always remain in-place)
- PACK IT UP completely, and re-place it anywhere in the world - indoors or outside!
- KILL your Mannequins to delete them permanently... they'll even BLEED and COMPLAIN if assaulted
- Mannequins function as PRACTICE DUMMIES... boost your stats by doing whatever to them
- Toggle the ESSENTIAL setting... so they won't die 'accidentally'
- Tweak Menu allows certain facial expressions, invisible pedestals, and even 'ghostly' Mannequins
- Automatically works after installing... instant and without effort, drama, or extensive instructions
- Works automatically with any "Body Replacers" you have installed... all races and creatures (eg- nude mods)
- Fixes the Vanilla "Wandering Mannequin" Bug
- Fixes the Vanilla "Item Duplication" Bug
>>These two 'Fixes' are only applied to the Mannequins in this mod. Vanilla Mannequins remain UNCHANGED... I made a PLAIN mod-fix for nilla-quins: http://www.skyrimforge.com/mods/vanilla-mannequin-script-fix/
[WHERE TO FIND]
- There is a strong-box just outside the MAIN GATE OF WHITERUN, to the right of the stairs (in the bushes).
- This box contains 100 free Mannequins, which will eventually respawn if Player does not enter that specific area for the prescribed time (which resets the respawn clock).
[HOW TO USE YOUR MANNEQUINS]
DROP a Mannequin Dummy from Player's Inventory (doesn't matter where), then ATTACK IT
- Move Player around so that the Dummy that appears is in the exact position/rotation you want it to be in
- Attack it and choose your race-type
ACTIVATE/TALK: enters the Inventory
ACTIVATE WHILE SNEAKING: enters the Customization Menu
* NOTE: Non-Humanoid Mannequins will NOT show you the 'talk/activate' message in your crosshairs. You may STILL activate them normally though... if you are close enough.
* NOTE: While in Statue Mode, sometimes Player will be able to walk completely through a mannequin (therefore unable to activate it). See "Important Notes" below for details on this bug/glitch introduced by the Skyrim v1.6 Update.
MOVEMENT and REPOSITIONING:
Select Race-Reposition in the Customization Menu
- A dummy will appear in front of Player; move Player around until the dummy is in the exact spot and rotation you want your mannequin. Attack it.
- Mannequins may be moved vertically (higher or lower) in the Customization Menu.
ESSENTIAL: in the Customization Menu, will toggle that entire Mannequin-Race to unkillable or not
Between 0.1x and 5x the original size with several increments between
- If scaling up or down, you must exit the Menu then restart it in order to scale in the opposite direction (eg- scaling up, exit, restart, scale back down)
- ORIG automatically sets it back to normal (without having to exit/reenter the menu)
- Collision does NOT scale up with the mannequin. This seems to be a bug/glitch in the game-engine which cannot be circumvented.
Select Race-Reposition in the Customization Menu
- Reposition the dummy to the exact position/rotation you want, then attack it
- Then choose your desired type; listing is in the other readMe file included in the download package.
- Items will automatically be transferred to the new mannequin.
- Choosing Dremora will give all items to Player.
Select Poses in the Customization Menu
- Poses may not be properly advanced when first set; leaving the area then returning corrects it
- Poses are available in both Living and Statue behavior modes
- Facial expressions will always be displayed.
- Ghostly means the mannequins have a degree of transparency, cycling between 50%, 25%, and Opaque/Normal.
- Pedestal may be set to invisible (eg- if it is unsightly, or mannequin doesn't fit on it)
- Automatically removes all the objects from this Mannequin (placing it all in Player's Inventory), deletes it and its pedestal, then adds a Dummy to your Inventory
CHANGING BEHAVIOR MODES:
click one of the following..
STATUE Mode: Mannequins are frozen in the same pose all the time.
LIVING Mode: Mannequins always stand in one spot, but perform idle animations, head tracking, and occasionally speak.
* NOTE: Using a certain "Behavior-Mode Version" of this mod (NOT the numeric version; but Living or Statue) sets all your Mannequins' DEFAULT behavior. In-game, you may change EACH individual Mannequin's behavior "Mode" to either, even while using ANY "Version" of the mod. *
* While in Statue Mode, sometimes you won't be able to Activate the mannequin (it won't have any collision at all). Leave the area then return (eg- go outdoors then return indoors). This is a bug/glitch introduced with the v1.6 Skyrim Update affecting actors with disabled AI. If the bug is triggered, you only have a few seconds after first entering the area to Activate the mannequin before it turns into a 'walk-through ghost' (after which time you'd have to leave-return again). It does NOT happen all the time, but I have been unable to pinpoint a pattern or find a workaround. If the problem persists; open the console, select the mannequin, type "activate player" (while sneaking to open the Customization Menu). *
ONLY humanoid races DISPLAY equipment, the only exceptions to these are:
- Dremora may only store items.
- Draugrs ONLY wear weapons/bows/quivers, shields, and diadems.
- Skeletons ONLY wear weapons/bows/quivers, shields, and diadems.
Creatures, animals, machinery, and other 'mannequins' may be used as permanent STORAGE but will NOT display any items.
- Poses may only be used with the humanoid races.
- Drawn weapons only seem to work in Living Mode.
- Equipped weapons may sometimes disappear in Statue Mode.. they still exist, but you cannot see them.
- A Mannequin can only store up to TEN ITEMS at a time... they'll automatically give back any items past that
- Scaling up a mannequin too large may cause it to fall off its pedestal.
[UPGRADING FROM A PREVIOUS VERSION OF SPODUM]
- BEFORE installing this mod, load the game with the old version still installed.
- REMOVE ALL ITEMS from any SPODUM mannequins, save the game in a place away from any of them and away from the inside of Whiterun (or outside the main gate)
- EXIT the game, uninstall the old version of the mod
- OPTION 1: start Skyrim without ANY version of SPODUM running or installed, save a new game, exit then install
- OPTION 2: install new version, then use the console to manually delete any pedestals or mannequins leftover from the previous versions (open console, select object, type "delete", hit enter)
- save a new saveGame AWAY from any Mannequins and away from the main gate of Whiterun
- Copy over the contents of this mod's DATA folder to your game install's DATA folder
- When asked, answer "Yes" to overwriting files
- Start Skyrim, load that new saveGame and play
- [SWITCHING DEFAULT BEHAVIOR VERSIONS]
- You may switch between versions (Living or Statue) at ANY time, and without doing anything special. This will NOT affect your game's data or break any questlines.
- To change to a different version, simply copy over the contents of the desired DATA folder to your game install's DATA folder (overwrite when asked). The as-installed default is Statue Mode, Living Mode is included in the folder " Alternative Default - Living".
- Behavior of Mannequins placed BEFORE changing versions may not reflect the change until manually set in its Customization Menu.
[KNOWN PROBLEMS and POTENTIAL CONFLICTS]
TRY THIS FIRST:
- If you have any kind of problem or strange behavior from Mannequins, LEAVE THE AREA containing Mannequins (fast-travel or go into/exit a building), THEN RETURN. This resets the area (cell) ensuring any new changes take effect, and positioning is corrected.
IT MOVES AWAY FROM PEDESTAL:
(or is knocked/bumped off or falls)
Mannequins will automatically return to their proper positions; you may have to leave the area and return (to refresh the cell)
- If a larger Mannequin-type is chosen, it may not fit on or fall off the pedestal without provocation. Using the Customization Menu, I suggest moving the Mannequin 'down' enough so that the pedestal is closer to the floor/land (so the Mannequin stands on land, thereby preserving it's position better). A possible alternative is to set the pedestal to Invisible in the Tweak Menu (but it may cause the Mannequin to shift position or look like it's climbing something that isn't there).
WEAPON OR OTHER ITEM DOESN'T DISPLAY WHILE IN STATUE MODE:
- For some reason, disabling AI sometimes causes weapons to disappear - this seems to be a bug in the game-engine (introduced with the v1.6 Skyrim Update?). Your items will never be lost, they just may not appear when they should.
SOMETIMES IT FLOATS IN MIDAIR:
- I'm not sure what causes this yet, but I haven't looked into it. When you leave the area then return, it fixes itself automatically. (I fairly certain I eliminated this, but left this notice just in case it arises)
MANNEQUIN FLICKERS AFTER INTERACTION:
- Presently, this is unavoidable as actors always flicker when equipping each new piece of equipment. There is also a glimpse of a mannequin dummy during race/repositioning.. this prevents a glitch which causes a newly placed mannequin to not be in the correct spot.
- When you shoot Mannequins with arrows, the ones that would be 'retrievable' automatically become quivers worn by the Mannequin
- sandboxing the animations (moving around the vicinity doing 'tasks'), and a toggle switch to make them static mannequins again (place them back on the pedestal)
- look into how to get target-practice arrows to 'stick' and prevent them from becoming quivers
- maybe add back Freeze mode, so that User may advance poses to a specific spot in the anim and have it always stay there (instead of the hard-coded timing I have assigned)
- have the pedestals automatically get larger or smaller to properly fit all mannequins and their scaling
- remove any ITEMS you may have placed on SPODUM mannequins
- navigate Player to an area which doesn't have mannequins
- save a NEW saveGame, exit Skyrim
- see readMe for specific listing of files that should be removed
- load that new saveGame and resume play...
- see readMe (this is the first version uploaded to SkyrimForge/Curse, so no need for version changes yet)
Bethesda (or "Licensor" as defined in the Skyrim EULA) is not the author of the "Customized Game Materials" included in this package. “THIS MATERIAL IS NOT MADE, GUARANTEED OR SUPPORTED BY THE PUBLISHER OF THE SOFTWARE OR ITS AFFILIATES.”
SLuckyD is not responsible for any damage these materials may cause, any misrepresentations or alterations to the original, and/or failure to successfully deliver any stated products or services.
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- Vanilla Mannequin Script Fix (for anything that uses Vanilla mannequins)
- Gokstad Sailable Viking Ship & Portable Player Home
- Faster Woodland Creatures (formerly known as Rotten Rat's Fast)
- Wounded Knee Gulch (1st non-Nilla Dungeon for Skyrim EVER)
- Ring of Fortify Carry Weight plus 10000
- Bullseye (1st New/Custom WorldSpace for Skyrim EVER)
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Allison Lee Hinchey, wife of congressman, serving 60 days in jail for DWI
Allison Lee Hinchey, the wife of retiring U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, was sentenced Friday in Albany City Court to 60 days in the Albany County Jail and three years of probation for driving drunk in January, according to the Albany County District Attorney’s Office.
She was sentenced in the morning and arrived at the jail about 4:45 p.m., 15 minutes before her deadline, according to a jail officer.
Cecelia Logue, a spokesperson for the DA’s office, said Mrs. Hinchey also had her driver’s license revoked for a year and was ordered to have an ignition interlock device, which checks a driver for intoxication before starting the engine, placed on any vehicle she drives for three years after her release from custody.
In addition, Mrs. Hinchey was ordered to pay restitution to the driver whose car was damaged in the fender-bender in downtown Albany that resulted in the drunken-driving charge, Logue said. That amount has not yet been determined, she said.
Mrs. Hinchey also must pay a fine of $500 and a $395 state surcharge, according to the Albany City Court clerk’s office.
Albany County District Attorney P. David Soares told MidHudsonNews.com on Friday that the sentence “reflects our tough stance on drinking and driving.”
“The citizens of this county will not tolerate drunk drivers putting their lives at risk,” Soares said.
Mrs. Hinchey could have been sent to jail for up to a year.
Logue said Mrs. Hinchey told Judge David Wukitsch before she was sentenced that she regretted her actions and would try to be a better citizen.
Mrs. Hinchey, 50, of Morgan Hill Road, Hurley, was arrested at 9:43 p.m. Jan. 18 by Albany police after the rear-end fender-bender. She was charged with misdemeanor drunken driving, driving while using a mobile phone, aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and following too closely. Continued...
The Times Union of Albany reported at the time that Mrs. Hinchey had a blood-alcohol content of 0.14 percent and was texting while driving. The state threshold for driving drunk is 0.08 percent, and texting while operating a motor vehicle is illegal.
Mrs. Hinchey pleaded guilty solely to the drunken driving count on June 28.
The arrest came the day before Mrs. Hinchey’s husband, who recently moved to Saugerties, announced he was retiring from Congress at the end of 2012 year after 10 two-year terms in office.
In a statement issued Friday by DKC Government Affairs, for which Mrs. Hinchey is a lobbyist, she said: “I deeply regret the pain I have caused my family and friends. I am mindful of my ongoing obligations to my son, my colleagues and my clients and am committed to living up to their trust and standards. I recognize how irresponsible my actions were, and while I cannot erase my negligence, I am grateful for the opportunity to take full responsibility.”
The company, in its own statement, said: “Allison has taken full responsibility for what happened. She understands the severity of the situation, and we support fully the steps she has taken to address it. We wish her and her family well during a difficult time, and we look forward to her return as soon as possible.”
The Jan. 18 arrest was Mrs. Hinchey’s second for drunken driving in an eight-month span. She also was charged with drunken driving in May 2011 in Hurley, though in that case, she was allowed to plead guilty to a reduced charge of driving while ability impaired by alcohol.
The penalty in the 2011 case was a 90-day suspension of Mrs. Hinchey’s license, a $340 fine and mandatory attendance at a DWI impact panel.
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DETROIT (TheStreet) -- January was a big month for hot cars, led by the Ford (F) Fusion, which showed a 65% sales gain, finally managing to fulfill its potential as dealers had sufficient inventory available.
In recent months, Ford has underperformed in the critical mid-sized sedan category because dealers didn't have enough Fusions. The lack of cars held back overall Ford sales since Fusion is generally Ford's top-selling car. With 22,399 sales in January, Fusion was the fourth best-selling U.S. car and the sixth best-selling vehicle, and Ford sales gained 22%.
But it wasn't just the Fusion that enabled a 14% industry sales jump in January and a seasonally adjusted annual sales rate of 15.3 million light vehicles.
The country is full of hot new cars, from the two that lead secondary brands Cadillac and Buick to the best symbol of Volkswagen growth in the U.S. to the new Toyota Avalon.
Auto sales were so strong in January that of all the 16 models sold by Chrysler, only one currently produced vehicle, the Dodge Caravan, showed a decline in sales, down 39% to 4,965.
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I used to work at Nordson Corp., and it was there that I ran into two Sherlock-worthy problems:
First, the company had hot-melt glue applicators ranging from units with small tanks (that glue was added to as small pellets or chips), up to a 55-gallon drum in heated-platen units. One of the 55-gallon drum units had an overheating problem.
When the line started, the LED indicators flashed, showing the heating cycle. The temperature display showed the temperature was rising. As the temperature neared the set point, the PID (proportional integral derivative) compensation was supposed to reduce the heat, and the LED flash rate slowed to mimic the change. But the temperature kept increasing until the over-heat tripped.
When this happened, the unit had to be allowed to cool before any testing could be done. The heating was controlled by a triac (triode for alternating current). When the unit cooled, I monitored the triac control voltage and output voltage. Even when the triac control was not on, it was heating, so the triac was shorted.
When I explained to the manager that I would need to replace the triac, he said that there wasn’t a replacement in stock. I checked stock myself, and found a replacement that would work. The triac for the 55-gallon unit was the same triac as was used on the tank-style unit. The two had different Nordson part numbers, but they were the same triac. After I replaced the triac, the over-heat problem was fixed.
Next, I experienced another line snafu. Our company had sealant dispensing units at the General Motors Oshawa Car Plant. There were two units on one line, and one wasn’t working properly. The plant was still in start-up, so the problem was not urgent. Another technician had been working on the unit, but had not been able to fix the problem. I was asked to look into the situation. I asked the technician for the details of all the testing he had done.
He narrowed the problem to a ribbon cable, but when he replaced the cable, it didn’t fix the problem. When I got to the plant, I asked if it would be a problem to shut down the other, working unit. We shut the working unit down, pulled the ribbon cable, and installed it on the non-working unit. That unit powered-up and worked. We then installed the suspect cable in the first unit. That proved the cable was the problem. The replacement cable also happened to be faulty. When available, swap-tronics can be a big help.
This entry was submitted by Glenn Aitchison and edited by Rob Spiegel.
Glenn Aitchison’s first field service job was in 1987. Since then he has worked in robotics, automotive, as well as industrial automation and machinery. He received his Certificates of Qualification as an Industrial Electrician and as an Industrial Mechanic (Millwright).
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How to Use Volume in Your Piano Playing
5 of 7 in Series: The Essentials of Bringing Expression to Your Piano Playing
Volume is perhaps the most easily recognized and executed technique in bringing your piano playing to life. Varying degrees of volume give your piano music a different dynamic. And that’s exactly what volume levels are called in music: dynamics.
As with TVs, car stereos, and crying babies, the world of volume has a wide range: from very soft to very loud. Composers are quick to realize this and tell performers exactly where to play in the volume spectrum. Of course, to make things a bit fancier, all dynamics in music are Italian words.
Starting with basic volume changes
When you talk about volume, you say something is loud or soft. From there you can explain how loud or how soft. Music uses the same principle: You start with two little Italian words, piano (soft) and forte (loud), to describe the volume of notes. Abbreviations for these words are now the norm. You see soft and loud marked simply as p and f, written in fancy, stylized fonts.
When you see a dynamic marking, whatever the requested volume may be, you continue to play at this volume level until you see a new dynamic marking.
Widening the range
If soft and loud were the only volume levels available, home stereos would just have two volume buttons, not a turning knob. But, in real life, you have a variety of volume levels. Rather than keep track of some more highly descriptive but multi-syllable Italian words, you need only remember one abbreviation for the in-between volumes: m, which stands for mezzo (medium). Place this word before piano or forte, and you get two more shades of volume.
For extreme volumes like “very soft” and “insanely loud,” just throw a few more p’s or f’s together. The more you have, the more you play. That is, pp means “very soft” (no jokes, please). The written word isn’t piano-piano, however. Instead, you use the Italian suffix -issimo, loosely translated as “very,” and you end up with pianissimo. The symbol ff would be “very loud,” or fortissimo.
The whole range of volume abbreviations is shown here:
Making gradual shifts in volume
Two dynamic symbols that you encounter quite often are those that tell you to gradually play louder — a crescendo (cresc.) — or to gradually play softer — a diminuendo (dim.). Thinking of the symbols as bird beaks can help you remember which is which: A bird gets louder as it opens its beak; softer as it closes its beak:
You can also think of crescendo and diminuendo as the opposite of the math symbols: The arrow points to the softer, smaller sound.
Whether they appear as words, abbreviations, or symbols, these instructions are almost always preceded and followed by dynamic markings that tell you to play from volume A gradually to volume B. Maybe the composer wants you to gradually go from very soft (pp) to very loud (ff), or perhaps the music indicates a subtle change from mezzo piano (mp) to mezzo forte (mf). Whatever the case, it’s up to you to decide exactly how to play these volume changes. | <urn:uuid:39fb0e93-e527-48d8-854d-a26fa5221b55> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-use-volume-in-your-piano-playing.html | 2013-06-19T12:55:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953058 | 729 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Sex, Drugs & The Monster :: Michael Brandon Documents His Life
In the realm of adult male films, Michael Brandon deserves the moniker of "living legend." What, though, is the cost for such status?
Brandon attempts to answer that (along with other questions) in his upcoming feature film documentary Born This Way: The Journey of Michael Brandon, directed by C.J. Goodman for OPH Films, telling his life’s journey over the past 25 years.
The in-progress documentary, featuring a series of interviews and reenactments, tells how Michael Phillips (Brandon’s real name) became Michael Brandon and the ups and downs his stardom have taken him. Interviews include not only one-on-one with Brandon, but also with a number of interviews from business associates, friends, ex-partners, and family. These include porn film director Chi Chi LaRue, adult film stars Ricky Sinz and Steven Richards, and his ex-wife.
Porn model and star Drew Cutler portrays the young Michael Brandon in the reconstruction of pivotal moments in Michael’s life. Those reenactments include Brandon’s coming out to his wife, his drug addiction, his court appearances and prison time, and some of the difficulties in his other relationships.
This is the first time that Michael Brandon has the opportunity to tell HIS story, making history in the process. As he puts it, "I am looking you in the eye through the camera’ and telling my story." ’Born This Way’ is the naked truth of Michael Brandon’s world that took from porn star to porn royalty, from celebrity to humanitarian, and from weak to strong. Through the unveiling of the truth, the guilt, the pain, and deceptions we meet the real Michael Brandon.
(Editor’s note: Click here to read a 2008 SF Weekly story by Ashley Harrell about Brandon’s adult male career and issues with drugs.
An honest portrayal
BeBe: It’s is great for me to have this opportunity to speak with you, the legendary gay porn star that you are, about your upcoming documentary of your life called ’Born This Way: The Journey of Michael Brandon.’ Since I have known you for some time, one of the questions that kept popping in my head is ’why a documentary of your life at this moment in time?’
Michael Brandon: I think it’s time. You know, my fan base has wanted me to write a book because Lord knows I have had my ups and downs. I can reach a mass audience with my fan base, but I really never thought it was the right time to write a book because there is still so much happening. And if you write a book, what do you do? You write another one, and then another one, and so on. But in 2011, a production company OPH Films, touched base with me about actually doing some mainstream acting for some B-horror movie type stuff. It came about that Jason (director and producer C.J. Goodman) had aspirations of doing a documentary. So we talked about and decided in 2012 that it was time.
BeBe: How long will filming and production take to make this documentary? I understand that there are a series of interviews that are a part of this documentary, correct?
Michael Brandon: Yes, well we had been working on it for about four months just setting everything up, but now we are in the nitty gritty of it all with the interviews. We got like 12 interviews when I was Augusta, Georgia because I have been with some of those people, my leather family, since 2001. We have all grown together in life. Having my leather family as a part of this documentary just fit.
The documentary is a very honest portrayal of my life. I don’t have anything to do with the interviews. I’m not on set with the interviews. I didn’t want (my friends) to feel like they have to talk a good game because I’m there and they are friends of mine. (The documentary) is about addiction, my drug addiction problem. It’s about my homelessness because of my addiction. Prison. My relationships. It’s a very honest portrayal of my life.
BeBe: I’m sure going through this making of the film process and the telling of your story has been therapeutic for you, as well as serving as an informational piece for your fans.
Michael Brandon: Yes. Yes, it has been overwhelmingly therapeutic. I am very vulnerable right now. I’m very raw. You know, I’ve shut down a lot of things even as growing up as a child. I’m learning a lot through all of this because it is opening me up. Like with my divorce from my wife ..... (a long pause to fight back emotion)..... yes, it’s very therapeutic.
BeBe: I know your fan base has been some what of a catalyst for you to do this film about your life, but beyond giving them this piece, are you hoping to reach others? I mean what you’ve gone through just doesn’t happen to porn stars, it can happen to anybody.
Michael Brandon: Yes, absolutely. We are hoping to enter the film into the film festivals, and stuff like that. One of the first premieres we plan to do is at the Castro Theater. My hope was to have this done for the week before last year’s Folsom Street Fair; but unfortunately, sometimes things don’t work out the way you’d like it to. I’m hoping to reach the masses, more so than my fan base. But of course my fan base is the core.
BeBe: Let’s talk a bit about your fan base, and how large it is. And, how you have still managed to stay relevant and appealing in the porn industry, which, let’s face it, is a lot about youth and appearance. Here you are in a prime period of your life and you are still in great demand for event appearances. Can you explain that? Why have your fans stuck by you so instead of replacing you with someone younger, or prettier?
Michael Brandon: Well, I keep reinventing myself. Yes, I started out in the industry as a porn star, and then I moved behind the camera with Raging Stallion Studios and became a partner in the company. I keep in contact with my fans. We’re loyal to each other. I dropped off the face of the Earth when I relapsed almost 4 years ago, but I can’t even begin to tell you how many emails that were all backed up from saying ’Where are you? We haven’t heard from you in weeks’. I’m usually on it. If I’m not on Facebook in two days people are wondering if everything I okay. My fans fucking rock! I love my fans. And, that’s why I have had the longevity. 25 years in the (porn) industry this year. 25 years. It’s because I’m creating a corporate ladder to success, so to speak. Porn star. Studio owner. 9X6 lube company. And, now the documentary.
BeBe: Well you’ve definitely branded your name. Michael Brandon is a brand. And with that brand comes an expectation, but you’ve delivered.
Michael Brandon: Yeah.....
BeBe: We know of your well publicized drug addiction period, and it leads me to talk about the overwhelming amount of deaths of porn models recently. These people are very young. I have to believe that the use of drugs played some part in why they are no longer with us. How do you think your documentary and the portrayal of your drug addiction in it will help young porn models out there as it pertains to their access to drugs, and their use of them.
Michael Brandon: Well, that is actually one of the reason why I thought it was time for us to tell my story, because it doesn’t have to be that way anymore. All you have to do is go to the internet and type in my name, and you will see some of the trials and tribulations I have gone through. And (the question is), why haven’t I succumbed like the others? I need to tell my story, to show people that it doesn’t have to be like that. It is difficult, yes. My life has pretty much been an open book, especially the drug addiction. It is my goal, and the production company’s goal to... I mean if we can save one life, help one person, even start a dialogue with my story, then it is all worth it.
BeBe: With everyone, as you say, pretty much knowing what has happened to you by the information on the internet, is the documentary then also a message, as well as informational on your life?
Michael Brandon: It’s my story. It’s not the reporter’s story. It’s not the columnist’s story. It’s not your story. Once you and I finish talking you put the words down on paper and then it becomes your story from your perspective. One of things about me doing this movie is you see me talk. You’re looking me in the eye ... (a moment of emotion takes over Michael before he continues)... um, or I’m looking you in the eye through the camera, the people throughout my life, my ex-wife, my ex-lovers, my mom and dad.
Getting to know Michael Phillips
BeBe: That’s interesting because we have spoken before in interviews, and you have specifically told me not to ask you about your family. Now your telling me they are in this documentary...
Michael Brandon: They will be.
BeBe: That’s a big step for you. That is something I would not have expected to here from you about the documentary.
Michael Brandon: (Laughing) Well, there will be some discretion. In every family there is a lot of things going on that don’t necessarily have to be known by the public. I mean, why? But you know we are going this period now with all the bullying and what not, and people see this Michael Brandon character all rough and tough (growls), but there is totally a different side to Michael Brandon.
BeBe: As you were growing up?
Michael Brandon: Even now. I’m evolving. And, Michael Brandon has been a front for all the pain and all the crap that Michael Phillips has gone through. I’m starting to get to know Michael Phillips again.
BeBe: You know there has always been that old adage that where ever you find a porn star, you’ll find a drag queen. And, I think the reason for that is because we do have the commonality, in many cases, of having this persona that we show the public that protects us from the public really knowing what is going on in our personal lives. We put on a face (makeup) to escape ourselves sometimes, and porn stars take off their clothes, so to speak.
Michael Brandon: You know me, I’m obsessive. I work, work, work, and that’s my escape. I don’t do the drugs anymore. I don’t drink the alcohol anymore. So, I don’t have that to escape all this crap.
A dramatic film?
BeBe: As we spoke of a bit earlier the crap is that expectation we’ve come to expect from Michael Brandon. Whether it be that tough side, that sexy side, and even that giving side, whatever it is we have come to expect it from you all the time. That adds pressure. That has to be a lot of pressure for you.
Michael Brandon: You know I haven’t done a (porn) film in 2-3 years. The last film I did was Hot House Entertainment’s ’Bad Ass.’ And, I’m still at the top of my game. Because as you said, it’s not so much about the film work anymore. It’s not about the sex shows I used to put on anymore. I’ve evolved into party promoter and party producer... I’m 47 years old, BeBe. I’m 47.
BeBe: When the documentary finally comes out, I’m sure it will generate a lot of interest. So thinking hypothetically that this will be a successful documentary, has any thought been given about go further to shoot a dramatic, bio-drama, about your life?
Michael Brandon: You know, as with my career, I haven’t really plotted and planned like the next step for Michael Brandon. I’ve just taken the step. The doors have either opened, or they have slammed in my face. Or, I have chosen not to walk through them. Keith Bailey who did a calendar shoot with me is also a host of a sci-fi channel and Reality TV series ’Picture Perfect,’ and he’s throwing scripts at me all of a sudden. Who knew? It’s a reality based show. Six months ago, BeBe, you couldn’t have told me I was going to step into mainstream film work. I guess I’m not that goal oriented to say this is what I want. I guess I’ve been pretty happy with following my own instincts and my heart.
BeBe: Tell me about the title of the documentary, ’Born This Way.’ We all know the title’s association with Lady Gaga, but why does it fit you and the documentary?
Michael Brandon: The reason I chose the title ’Born This Way,’ because I’ve been telling people way before Gaga was even born that I was born this way (the way I am). I fought the feelings for many, many years. I’ve been running from these feelings, the homosexual feelings, the same-sex partner feelings since I was yay tall. I remember first grade just dreading for the bell to ring to go home because I was going to have to run out and be first because I was teased and bullied. I fought it. I mean, I got married. I did what society said we were supposed to do. Grow up, marry a woman, have children, get the white picket fence, the two cars all that stuff. I had all that and I wasn’t happy. I wasn’t fucking happy! If you’re not born this way, then why am I having these feelings? I was molested as a child. Is that why I’m gay? No! I’s not. If anything that would have turned me away from being so. You know what I’m saying... eww, eww.
Fascinated with porn
BeBe: Yeah, because the act of man-on-man sex would be back painful memories, I guess. But, you know rape and molestation has a lot more to do with control than it does with act of sex itself. But, being gay or straight for that matter is about whom you fall in love with. That’s something you can’t control. Because if you could control it, I think the furthest thing from you mind would be to fall in love with someone who reminds you of pain and hurt. So, getting to how what your saying related to the documentary, ’Born This Way’ will cover your struggles with your sexuality, and is it your struggles with sexuality what drove you to do porn?
Michael Brandon: I’ve always had a fascination with porn. And, it just happened. I came out of the closet. I asked my wife for a divorce, and went through some soul searching. What I was doing wasn’t working. I’m not happy. It was fair to my ex-wife. It wasn’t fair to me. We didn’t have any children in our lives to complicate things. So, I had to make a decision of what to do. And after a year or so of that soul searching I decided I couldn’t live that life anymore. And to get that release on that carnal level that I was craving, that gay man and woman craves...
BeBe: Well, as a newly out gay person you crave same-sex intimacy because it is something that you haven’t had all the time while living a rather straight life. Once we are free to express who we really are we tend to earn for that expression a bit (of course I’m smiling right now).
Michael Brandon: Exactly. So I would go to the porn stores and do my thing. I would watch porn and fantasize. I was reading the back of Edge Magazine and read an ad for XXX models wanted. That opened the door. I picked up the phone and walked through the door, and 25 years later here we sit. It’s been an amazing journey.
BeBe: This documentary will be an eye opener for many people. Your fans, those that know you, and those that don’t know you are all going to walk away from this knowing so much about you.
Michael Brandon: The porn industry has such a stigma surrounding it. And not that I’m trying to dispel any of the stigma, or anything like that, because some of it is well deserved. I mean, we’re riddled with drug abuse. But, so are many other industries.
BeBe: But I think also why the porn industry receives so much criticism, especially in the U.S., is because sex is still so taboo here. Because people who act and are in the that entertainment industry have the same problems with drugs. We have the Whitney Houston story. We have the Lindsey Lohan story.
Michael Brandon: They are all running from something.
Finishing the flm
BeBe: What is it going to take to finish this film?
Michael Brandon: We are looking for financing to put this in the can. Indiegogo is a very popular fundraising platform, and what we’ve designed is if you can give $25 we’re giving you something for that donation.
If you go to the Indiegogo ’Born This Way’ page, you will see that every different level of donation will give you certain and different perks. For instance, a $250 donation will allow you to be a Personal Assistant (PA) during the filming of the reenactments of the documentary. That’s another thing, this film is not going to be your sort of ho hum, sort of boring with a bunch of interviews.
We are going to take 3 to 4 pivotal times in my life and hire actors to play me and the others involved to reenact them. Such as, when I went to court after I got picked up the first time during my drug addiction relapse; or coming out to my wife - those life changing points in my life will be reenacted. In order to surpass the usual expectation of typical documentaries we are going to punch it up with visuals by reenactments.
BeBe: That’s something totally different than what people will expect. This will help all that we see and hear in the documentary burn a little deeper in our souls.
Click here to learn more of how to donate to the making of "Born This Way: The Journey of Michael Brandon".
Click here for more information and to follow the film’s progress including information on upcoming fundraisers.
Purchase Michael Brandon’s 2013 Benefit Calendar with photography by Keith Bailey and raise money for the Stop AIDS Worldwide Project at www.9X6lube.com/michaelbrandon
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From today....you tweet, we donate!
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Last year we decided not to send Christmas cards in favour of sending everyone an email card and then donating money to East Anglian Children's Hospices (EACH). This year, we decided to take things a stage further, by donating to the Childrens Society every time our Christmas message is tweeted via Twitter.
The Christmas card is in the form of an email, which then asks readers to click-though to a specially designed page featuring an illustrative Further fund-raising Christmas tree.
Tweeting the message on the page pushes up the total that the Further team will donate to The Childrens Society by 10p per tweet - and as the total reaches pre-determined milestones, the tree lights up accordingly.
The page also links off to a special 'JustGiving' page for any readers who wish to make a cash donation themselves to the worthy cause.
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The Hawkman cruiseth.
Tony Hawk is 36 years old. He was married for eight years and has three sons. He's an entrepreneur, a cultural icon, a video game pioneer and the greatest skateboarder to ever enter a vert ramp. So why is he running around barfing on cops, flicking boogers
at pedestrians and trashing
absolutely anything he can get his board on?
Actually, the more likely scenario is that he was talked into it by the folks
who made Jackass sidekick
and now star of his very own MTV skating show/Dennis
the Menace rip-off, Bam
Margera, famous. Bam has become synonymous with ridiculous acts of vandalism
and parental annoyance, a punk rock martyr for legions of pre-teen skate rats
who still think it's really, really funny to fart on your little brother's
head. He's a genius, the idiot, and one hell of a stunt man.
He's also one hell of a businessman, having somehow connived his way into Tony
Hawk's Underground 2, the latest entry in the vaunted skating series that refuses to die. Not only is it chock full of Bam's brand of hi-jinks and tomfoolery, it's also chock full of the gameplay that has made this series the best on the planet, all wrapped up in a very thorough, fairly smooth and clearly aging loogie of a skateboarding game.
The first Tony Hawk's Underground introduced
the concept of Story mode to the series by having you play the role of an up-and-coming
skater trying to get a pro deal. THUG
2 promptly dispenses with such a noble dream by dropping you into the
middle of Tony and Bam's
latest idea, the World Destruction Tour. Two teams led by the superstars embark
on a round-the-world skating odyssey in which the team that does the most damage
- physically, emotionally and socially - wins. You start off on Team Hawk, although
over the course of the plot you'll skate for Bam, too.
Not that it matters who wins or anything, because the Story mode is simply there
to get you through the game's eight new levels with at least some sort
of rhyme and reason. It's a linear plot and a linear progression, just like
in THUG, complete with appearances by other real skaters like Mike
Vallely, Bob Burnquist and Rodney Mullen as well as your annoying, fictitious
ex-friend, Eric Sparrow.
As before, you don't have to nail all the goals in a level to proceed. THUG
2 expands on this by actually giving you four different skaters for each level, all of whom have their own set of goals. You'll start off as yourself and can pick a pro partner, but you'll eventually find two other skaters to play as, including a zany one (inventor Ben Franklin, an Australian shrimp vendor, a Louisianan jester, etc) and a motorized one (Steve-O on the back of a mechanical bull, for instance).
Each goal for each skater is worth a certain number of points. In a nice twist,
it doesn't actually matter which goals you complete so long as you score enough
points to open up the next level. If you can't
figure out how to nail a particularly nasty combo, you can pass on it and try
another goal with someone else altogether. This gives each level a more open
feel and helps the replay value, as you might even pass a level without playing
as all four potential skaters.
Story mode is on the short side, easily beatable by vets of the series (are there
Hawk newbies out there?) in under 10 hours. That's actually a blessing,
though, because the plot and cut-scenes are pretty lame. Tony Hawk is a cool
dad, no doubt, but he's obviously not very comfortable trying to keep up with
Bam's over-the-top teen troublemaker image. Some people might find cameos by
Wee Man and Bam's fat dad Phil thrilling, but unless you're a die hard Bam
fanboy, you'll just
want top skip the incessant mischief and retarded dialogue for more good old-fashioned
Lucky for you, THUG 2 throws in a completely separate Classic
mode. This recalls earlier games in the Pro Skater series by
pitting you against traditional challenges. In order to open up levels, you'll
have to search out S-K-A-T-E letters, nab the Sick score, collect five of something
or other, etc, etc. Purists will dig it, particularly when they open up the six
old-school levels that have been recreated for THUG
2. Remember the Airport (THPS
3) or the Downhill Jam (THPS)?
Although to be frank, there's not really enough new stuff going on with the gameplay
to warrant yet another ride through these old levels. The most notable addition
is the sticker slap, which lets you jump in the air and plant off a wall to keep
your combo going. This solves the dilemma of the dead end and makes your huge
combos even larger. Otherwise, the new moves are minor tweaks and don't impact
the game beyond being requirements in Story mode. The only one worth mentioning
mode," the Tony
Hawk version of bullet-time that makes it a little easier to land tricks
cleanly, which sounds more useful than it actually is. If you've mastered any
of the five earlier games in the series, you already know the gist of it all.
Even so, it's still a good deal of fun ripping through the big, wacky levels in both Story and Classic modes. Tony
Hawk's gameplay might be growing old, but it's proven beyond a doubt that it's the best in the business and doesn't lose any steps here.
The same can be said of THUG
2's customization buffet. There are a ton of "create-a-something" modes, allowing you to build your own skaters, graphics, decks, levels, goals and tricks. The PS2 version of the game reprises the face-mapping feature found in THUG, now with Eyetoy support for better ease of use. Those interested in really making their own game out of THUG
2 will be pleased.
But PS2 owners are the only ones who will enjoy the fruits of Neversoft's online
labor, as it's the only one of the three consoles with online support. Though
Gamecube owners are missing out, there's still enough depth with the single-player
and split-screen multiplayer to offset the lack of online play.
THUG 2 is a fast, smooth game and runs well on all three
platforms, although the PS2 and Gamecube are a notch or two behind the tightness
of the Xbox. Neversoft has been at this series for six years now, and it shows
in the solid texture work and decent framerates. There are still some rough angles
on characters and cheesy bitmapped objects from time to time, but by and large
the game doesn't suffer too much for it.
The THPS series is eclipsed only by the Grand
Theft Auto games
in terms of eclectic musical depth [Or possibly Skullmonkeys? ~Ed]. THUG
2 continues this great
audio tradition with a mixed assortment of over 50 songs, ranging from great
old punk tracks like X's 'Los Angeles' and
Love Livin' in the City' to tunes from Metallica, Joy Division, Rancid and
even Frank Sinatra. Good stuff.
Make no mistake: Tony Hawk's Underground 2 is a very solid game
and a no-brainer for those who have yet to experience the series. Neversoft has
refined the gameplay to the point of it being almost a meditation exercise, letting
you grind, manual, revert and flip with a Zen-like calmness. But despite the
fact that Tony
Underground 2 is
stuffed to the gills with the gameplay that has made the series a phenomenon,
actually pull off many new tricks, and like the man himself, is starting
to show its age. Flicking boogers at dad might work for Bam, but we
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Thursday, October 25, 2007
USE FESTIVAL TO ATTRACT INVESTMENT
By: WINSTON TAMAKLOE, DODOWA-AVEXA
The Volta Regional Minister Kofi Dzamesi has advised traditional authorities to use festivals to showcase the nation’s rich cultural values, norms and traditions as tourism potentials for investment.
“Tourism and investment are now foreign exchange earners and as a nation we must strive to convert our festivals into income generating sources,” he said.
Mr. Dzamesi gave the advice when he represented the President, J.A. Kufuor at this year’s celebration of the Agadzi Za festival, the migration of the Ewes from the tyrannical rule of Togbe Agokorli of Notsie in the Republic of Togo.
The occasion was used to honour the president, the Regional Minister and the paramount chief of the traditional area and Member of the Council of state for the Volta Region. Togbega Kpangbatriku III.
It was on the theme: Strengthening the human resource base of the traditional area through quality education for accelerated development.
Mr. Dzamesi urged traditional authorities to plan their festivals to include tourism and investment potentials of their areas, such as artifacts and local dishes which must be sold at the festivals to generate income.
He underscored the role of festivals in socio-economic development and charged them to use the occasion as a forum for pooling resources and planning development projects to improve upon living standards of the people.
“Available resources must be put to good use to improve the life of our people instead of wasting them on dispute and litigations.
Mr. Dzamesi commended the chiefs and youth of the area for their regard for quality education to hasten development and pledged the government’s assistance for the area’s education, health and road construction.
He reminded the people of the numerous projects, programmes, interventions and activities by the government to accelerate the development of the region and appealed to them to reciprocate the gesture by showing support.
Togbe Kpangbatriku commended the youth for their interest in education through the construction of a three classroom junior high school, and an office block, roofing a four classroom block destroyed by rainstorm and the renovation of a building to serve as a computer laboratory for the traditional area and neighbouring communities.
He said plans were underway to establish a vocational training centre to train the youth in employable skills to improve the manpower base of industry and appealed for support and assistance to expedite action on the project.
Togbe Kpangbatriku advised the Dodome Youth Association to rally behind their traditional authorities and elders to sustain the development of the area so that the peace, unity and harmony prevailing would boost tourism and attract investment to the area.
Togbe Atsridom V, Paramount Chief of Kpedze traditional area who chaired the function, commended the youth for the commitment, dedication, determination and selfless support to the development of the area.
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Landmark News Service
Investigators believe they have identified a murder victim, found by hunters in a Henry County ditch more than nine years ago.
The man, Miguel Angel Garcia, was reportedly killed on an eastern Jefferson County farm in a 1998 cocaine-deal gone wrong, investigators believe.
Garcia's skeletal remains were linked to DNA samples from the FBI's missing-persons database.
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
You may remind yourself a hundred times that you shouldn't get angry, but when the emotion comes, you are unable to control it. It comes like a thunderstorm. Emotions are much more powerful than your thoughts. What can you do when anger rises in you?
Anger is a distortion of your true nature and it doesn't allow the self to shine forth fully. The structure of human consciousness or the mind is very similar to that of an atom. The positively charged protons and neutrons are in the center of the atom while the negatively charged particles are only on the circumference. Similarly, even in human consciousness, mind and life, all the negativities and vices are only in the periphery. Your true nature is peace and love.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Each new year, people wish each other happiness, prosperity and peace, but only a few seem to know how to be peaceful -- like only a few know how to make money. Here are some steps that might help one to find the most needed inner peace.1. Take Time for Yourself
Often, we become so engrossed in our day-to-day activities, we simply end up gathering more and more information, and do not take time out to think and reflect. Then we feel dull and tired.
A few quiet moments everyday are the source of creativity. Silence heals and rejuvenates and gives you depth and stability. Sometime during the day, sit for a few minutes; get into the cave of your heart, eyes closed, and keep the world away.
Taking some time for yourself improves the quality of your life.
HOW RISKY ARE YOUR INVESTMENTS?
There is an inescapable relationship in investing between risk and return although it does not automatically follow that an investment offering a higher return will fail or that a low-risk investment such as a bank account will not run into difficulties.
Not even cash and bonds are entirely risk-free
Bank deposits are generally backed by government guarantees, but only up to certain limits and the guarantees are only as good as the ability of governments to honour them. When the Irish government announced a blanket
Pizza is probably the most popular Italian dish, and hails from Naples, the nation’s third largest city. A Neapolitan pizza usually has a thin, soft but crisp crust and is around 30-cm wide.
Considered a peasant's meal in Italy for centuries we cannot say who invented the very first pizza pie. Food historians agree that pizza like dishes were eaten by many peoples in the Mediterranean including the Greeks and Egyptians.
A breakfast special with just 3 basic ingredients - flour, milk, and eggs. Once you see how easy it is to make them from scratch, you’ll never go back to those pre-packaged pancake mixes ever again!
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Don't know where to start, here are 10 tips to help keep your writing interesting and readable. Read on...
Tip 1: Write in Your Own Voice
Of these 10 tips for writing a good article, this one is absolutely huge. Too many writers come across as "phoney" because they are trying too hard to imitate how they think they ought to sound, rather than just writing in a voice that is comfortable to them. You may be wondering how this fits in with writing marketing articles as opposed to pure information articles - it holds true either way. Be yourself.
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More than before, Indian communities in Indonesia can enjoy India’s popular TV shows on SAB and Colors in Topas TV’s Indian package. SAB has established itself as India’s leading comedy centric TV channel, bringing smiles and laughters to its audience through shows like Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah, Chidiyaghar, Hum Aap Ke Hai In-Laws, and RK Laxman Ki Duniya. The channel’s flagship, Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah, is one of India’s most succesful and longest running sitcom. The story is based on a column by Gujarati writer Taarak Mehta. It portrays the charm and heart-warming real life situation in a fictional community that represents India’s diversity. This feel-good channel, which showcases positive values like love, respect, patience, family and togetherness, is exclusive at Topas TV.
After a hiatus of 6 years, Indonesia once again joined 38 countries in one of the most glamorous Indian cultural event, Miss India Worldwide. Miss India Indonesia, Shreenjit Kaur succeeded in securing a spot in Top 10. She also won the hearts of the event’s top sponsors, Franch World, as their top pick and was awarded the title of Miss Franch World. With the support of the Indian Embassy in Indonesia and His Excellency Mr. Gurjit Singh, Shreenji Kaur stood proud in the worldwide pageant, along with all other winners from different countries around the world.
The event started off with an opening dance by the 39 contestants. The dance was choreographed by the group Astana of the Malaysian Performing Arts Society. The contestant wore alluring outfits that blended traditional Malay-Indian elements.
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Can Medical Humanities Take Root in Asia?
SHANKAR P R
Dr. P.Ravi Shankar, KIST Medical College P.O.Box 14142 Imadol, Lalitpur, Nepal. Phone: 0977-01-6916201 Fax: 00977-01-5201496. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org
Medical humanities are a diverse group of disciplines. Literature, arts, music, drama, films, bioethics, medical anthropology, philosophy of medicine, history of medicine and medical sociology has been included in the group of medical humanities.
Asia is a huge continent and has the largest number of medical schools in the world. Recently, many new medical schools have been opened, predominantly in the private sector. English is the language of instruction in many medical schools.
Medical Humanities, as a discipline, is most developed in the United States of America. Strong programs also exist in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway and Sweden. In Asia, the University of Tel Aviv in Israel conducts a course in “The philosophy of medicine”.
In the west, there has been strong support for Medical Humanities at an administrative level. A variety of methods are used to teach the subject, and learning is fun and is interesting. A number of journals publish articles related to Medical Humanities. Online journals and blogs make publishing easy, and online databases serve as a repository of material.
In Asia, the traditional hierarchical structure of the student-teacher relationship may be a problem towards widespread adoption of interactive, small-group learning. This is however, changing. English being the language of instruction, and lack of division of the medical curriculum into core areas and electives, may also be a problem. Interdisciplinary learning is not well developed. Voluntary modules offered to interested students can create a case for introduction of the humanities in the curriculum. The humanities will be helpful towards creating more ‘humane’ doctors.
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I wasn't sure if I was going to get a chance to wear my new Madewell trench this spring but the weather has been cold this week so I was able to finally break it out! Graduation is coming up soon for me (4 weeks left)! So I'm trying to enjoy my college life as much as I can before real life hits this summer. My goal is to move to New York City with Nick once we both get jobs and are settled back home. I'm definitely ready to leave the south and get back to my roots in the northeast!
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Lowering the Bar had this item last week but has been sitting on it until it was (a) confirmed (as having actually been filed, that is, not as relating true events) and (b) made public by someone else first, and now it appears both of those conditions have been met.
A Mr. Robert Seitz, acting pro se, recently filed a motion to recuse a judge in Florida on grounds that I would guess are very rare, if not unprecedented. Seitz alleged that the judge was biased because of two, um, encounters they allegedly had while students at the University of Miami almost 25 years ago. He did not really explain why these incidents would justify his supposed "grave concern" about her impartiality, even if they were true.
The "legal tabloid" Above the Law was one of the first to post the story, as far as I can tell, and I will let them host the documents as well.
In a recent order, the judge denied Seitz's motion to recuse, denied his allegations, and (remarkably, I thought) denied the other side's motion for sanctions against Seitz. Seitz has a history of doing this kind of thing -- a published Florida opinion notes that he pleaded no contest in 2001 to five counts of battery, stalking, and harassment, including publishing what he claimed were his victim's pharmaceutical records. Seitz was given probation on those charges, but violated it, and ended up spending four years in jail.
The 2004 order against Seitz I will publish myself.
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"Abandoned warehouse motif--seriously???"
Reviewed Jun 10, 2013
I'm just curious whose brainchild it was that thought that someone going on vacation wanted to stay in an abandoned warehouse-feeling room. Seriously?? The outside hallway looked as if it was under construction, and the room was dark and dingy with raw cement walls, exposed conduits and oh wait, a wall quilt to make it all better. It felt as if I was squatting in an old warehouse on the seedy side of town, or in a prison cell. The room appeared clean, and the bed was nice, but the decor was atrocious and has become the running joke of my company. I doubt we will ever choose LaQuinta again.
"Great location if you train with Gracie Barra Irvine"
Reviewed Jun 3, 2013
Breakfast is mediocre and the front desk staff inflexible. I stayed for over 12 nights and they would not extend my check out time to accommodate. Had to pay for an extra night! I would look for different options in Irvine next time
Great hotel, Great location!! Rooms have been updated, nicely! Exterior needs to be updated. I thought maybe it was old inside, but was pleasantly surprised. Conveniently located for easy access to all our family orientated destinations! Will definatly return in the future!!!
This hotel is built in part in a lime bean silo. The first floor rooms have the rounded concrete walls and are very nicely sized. Had a king bed. Very comfortable. We are retired military and they gave us a great rate. They also made a point of acknowledging military service. Big choice in the free breakfast. The room itself is worth the stay.
I chose this hotel for the location, price, breakfast, and free parking. My family and I were pleasantly surprised with the spacious , well appointed rooms and comfortable beds.
Other reviews mentioned the train but it zipped by quickly and we hardly noticed it.
We will definitely return for future family visits!
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NEW YORK (MainStreet) – Have you ever booked a flight, only to find out a few weeks later that the price of the ticket had dropped?
Airfare comparison site CheapAir.com just introduced a program to put an end to buyer’s – or flier’s – remorse. The Price Drop Payback program allows people who book through their website to monitor the price of a ticket on that flight and get a refund equivalent to the difference if the price drops between their purchase and their flight. The program is being rolled out after a six-month trial period, during which the average user saved $52 per flight, according to CheapAir CEO Jeff Klee.
But CheapAir isn’t the only travel comparison website that offers such a guarantee. Here’s how CheapAir stacks up against its rivals’ policies.
CheapAir: If you find a cheaper price on the same flight after booking through CheapAir.com, you’ll get paid the difference. There’s a cap of $100 for the payout, and you’ll receive it only in the form of credit to be used on a future booking through the website. It’s also important to note that you’ll have to monitor the price yourself – it doesn’t happen automatically – and you can only get a refund once. So if the price of your flight drops $20 after a week, you have to decide whether to take the $20 right then and there, or gamble that it will drop even more if you wait.
Expedia: This popular website kicks things up a notch by not only refunding the difference in price, but also by throwing in a travel coupon for $50. But Expedia kicks things down several notches with one very big caveat: It’s only good if you find a lower fare within 24 hours. As such, it’s not so much a protection against price drops as it is an assurance that they found you the best price available the day you bought your ticket.
Hotwire: This website extends the price-match window a bit, promising a refund of the difference if you find a better airfare or hotel rate within 48 hours. However, it does not promise any additional coupons or credits when you find a better fare.
Orbitz: This website has a similar program to Expedia’s, which it calls the Low Fare Promise: If you find a lower fare on a flight you just booked, fill out a claims form on the Orbitz website by midnight CT that day to get a $50 coupon toward your next Orbitz purchase (the fare must be at least $5 cheaper to qualify). Another program, Orbitz Price Assurance, offers more long-term protection: If another customer on Orbitz books the same flight or hotel as you at a lower price, you’ll be refunded the difference. Compared to CheapAir, Orbitz offers a higher potential refund (up to $250 per flight and $500 per hotel room), and will grant you the refund automatically. On the other hand, the better fare must be found only on Orbitz, and you only receive the refund if someone else books that same flight or hotel. As such, you’re probably less likely to actually get the refund, though it has the potential to be higher if you do.
Priceline: Similar to Orbitz and Expedia, Priceline will refund the difference if you find a lower-priced flight within 24 hours, as well as throw in a $50 credit toward your next Priceline vacation package. If you use the Name Your Own Price program, however, you get the Big Deal Guarantee, which will match any price you find up to midnight the day before your trip (and throw in $50 credit toward your next Priceline package). The downside is that you only get this benefit if you use Name Your Own Price, which allows you to get lower-than-published prices for the cost of being locked into whichever airline accepts your bid. If you’d rather have more control over your airline, flight time and hotel, the program isn’t for you. | <urn:uuid:58020038-8b46-4dba-8d39-07fd3f27b685> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mainstreet.com/article/lifestyle/travel/how-do-price-guarantees-travel-websites-compare | 2013-06-19T12:25:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943211 | 857 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
In Pleasant Hill, where competition for donations is fierce, most of the eight candidates running for City Council are using personal loans to pay for the expensive lawn signs and glossy mailers that are the calling cards of an election campaign.
Meanwhile, in Martinez, the only council incumbent running has raised little money and is using recycled campaign materials, while the top two challengers are awash in cash.
Campaign finance reports show that seven of the eight Pleasant Hill candidates have loaned their campaigns money. Ken Carlson has avoided digging into his own pocket largely thanks to the $8,975 the Pleasant Hill Police Officers' Association has spent on his behalf.
Planning Commissioner Jim Bonato has loaned his campaign the most, records show. Bonato raised $5,518 and loaned his campaign $12,000, according to the Oct. 30 finance report, the last filling before Tuesday's election. Bonato said his campaign manager told him early on that he needed about $15,000 to run a competitive race.
"Some of us rely upon personal loans, and I think we rely upon that because we believe in what we're doing, and we want to be successful," Bonato said. "The way to be successful is to get the word out."
Attorney Tim Flaherty, another planning commissioner, raised $14,212 and loaned his campaign $7,500. On the low end, Jessica Braverman, a Neighborhood Watch captain, collected $690 in donations and loaned herself $1,157. David
Pleasant Hill Councilman Michael Harris, who's isn't running this year, pointed out that Pleasant Hill has lower contribution limits than other cities in the county -- individuals can give a maximum of $500, and unions and committees can donate up to $1,000. In this election, most of the individual donations are in the $50 to $200 range, records show.
"We're a small city, and unlike Walnut Creek or Concord, where there are a lot of businesses that can afford to provide campaign contributions, we don't have a lot of (political action committees), we don't have a lot of unions," he said. "So the contributor pool is small compared to other cities, and with eight candidates, I mean, how much money are people willing to contribute?"
Martinez Councilman Mark Ross, the only incumbent in the race, raised $1,950 and loaned his campaign $1,750, according to campaign finance reports covering the period from July to Oct. 20. Ross, who said he's expecting a few more checks in the mail this weekend, said he cut costs by revamping the mailer he used four years ago and reusing old yard signs.
"I'm not on the fundraising pace that I usually am, but I haven't put as much effort into it, and I also don't need as much as I used to," Ross said.
Two challengers in Martinez have raised more than 10 times as much as Ross. Dylan Radke has raised $25,278, and Anamarie Avila Farias brought in $21,827. The two tapped a wide range of donors, including labor unions, property owners, businesses and other local politicians.
Despite being outspent, Ross doesn't believe he's at a disadvantage because he enjoys the perks of incumbency.
"Because I have the name identification, I don't have to spend $15,000," he said. "They have to introduce themselves to the community on a broader spectrum than I have to."
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It's raining in D.C., and there's a chance of rain today at Space Coast Stadium.
Ross Detwiler, who was very sharp out of the bullpen last week, gets a chance to start today against the Braves. Pay attention to Detwiler's altered mechanics -- he's striding more in a straight line toward the plate instead of throwing across his body -- and pay attention to the radar gun on his fastball.
This is technically Livan Hernandez's slot in the rotation, as it lines up perfectly for the March 31 opener against these same Braves. Livo was due to throw a simulated game this morning, just to get his work in.
It's raining here in Washington, and there's also some rain in the forecast in Viera, but hopefully it will hold off enough to get the game in. And since it's on TV for a change, I'll try to post some thoughts of my own along the way. Enjoy the game...
BRAVES at NATIONALS
Where: Space Coast Stadium, Viera
Gametime: 1:05 p.m.
TV/Radio: MASN, MLB Network, 106.7-FM
Weather: Chance of storms, 77 degrees, Wind 16 mph RF to LF
STARTING LINEUPS1:25 p.m. -- I was about to say Ross Detwiler's off to a really strong start, but then he walked Jason Heyward and served up a double to Alex Gonzalez. Fantastic relay, however, from Danny Espinosa to nail Heyward at the plate. Detwiler would have gotten out of the inning if not for Ian Desmond's first error of the spring, which allowed the day's first run to score. So the Braves are up 1-0 in the middle of the second, though Detwiler has looked pretty sharp so far. Velocity in the 91-92 mph range.
CF Nyjer Morgan
SS Ian Desmond
RF Jayson Werth
DH Rick Ankiel
C Wilson Ramos
LF Laynce Nix
2B Danny Espinosa
1B Michael Aubrey
3B Alex Cora
(P Ross Detwiler)
LF Martin Prado
CF Jordan Schafer
3B Chipper Jones
2B Dan Uggla
RF Jason Heyward
SS Alex Gonzalez
1B Freddie Freeman
C David Ross
P Tommy Hanson
1:48 p.m. -- The makeup of the Nationals' projected rotation may not allow for Detwiler to crack the Opening Day roster. But I'll tell you what: Ross is doing everything he can to make this decision difficult on Mike Rizzo and Co. He has looked fantastic so far through three innings, striking out five (including four in a row). He dialed up his fastball to 93 mph to end the third, another encouraging sign. Offensively, not much happening through the game's first three innings against Tommy Hanson. Braves still lead 1-0 as they head to the fourth, with J.D. Martin coming on to replace Detwiler.
2:18 p.m. -- Pretty uneventful day at the plate so far for the Nats, who have been shut out for five innings by Hanson and Cristhian Martinez, a right-hander who has been getting some tremendous movement on his 2-seamer. The crosswind may be helping that pitch out. So is the plate umpire Hunter Wendelstedt's strike zone. Whatever the case, the Braves hold a 2-0 lead in the sixth.
2:48 p.m. -- Bryce Harper in the game now. Worked the count in the bottom of the seventh, then rapped a sharp, sinking line drive to left that was caught. From what we've seen of him so far this spring, Harper definitely looks to go the other way a lot. And he hits the ball pretty hard that way. More evidence of his supreme baseball talent. Still needs to refine his game. A lot. But you can see that he's got the full package.
3:22 p.m. -- Well, not exactly a scintillating performance from the Nats today. Kind of hard to be scintillating when you only collect two hits and get shut out, 5-0. Really, though, the biggest thing to take away from this game is Ross Detwiler. Kind of difficult to make any substantive evaluations about the lineup when several regulars (Zimmerman, LaRoche, Morse/Bernadina) weren't playing. Curious what everyone thought of F.P. Santangelo in his debut broadcast. It seemed like he really did his homework on various members of the roster, though there were moments when you could tell he didn't really know certain guys' backgrounds. Wasn't the most enthusiastic color man, either, but again that could have to do with this being his first game. I would imagine he'll get more comfortable over the course of the spring. All in all, I thought it was a satisfactory debut. | <urn:uuid:0aaa0a77-cdb5-4ea9-9baf-eb135e6d1529> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.natsinsider.com/2011/03/nats-vs-braves-3611.html?showComment=1299442312070 | 2013-06-19T12:48:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962843 | 1,054 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
July 23, 2012
Virginia is seeking federal disaster assistance for the costs associated with late June wind and thunderstorms that left 15 dead and 1.3 million utility customers without power.
Gov. Bob McDonnell said Monday he is requesting the assistance through the Federal Emergency Management Agency. He said state emergency management officials have received post-storm assessments from local governments and are working with FEMA officials.
Some costs that are eligible for reimbursement include the activation of emergency crews to respond to the storm, the opening of shelters and the removal of debris.
As a result of the storm, a total 47 Virginia jurisdictions declared emergencies.
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Restocking fish in Clara Meer, Piedmont Park.
Clara Meer was created for the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition. The lake is routinely stocked with fish, including Large Mouth Bass, Crappie, Bream and Catfish, and attracts anglers of all ages. A valid State of Georgia fishing license is needed to fish in Piedmont Park.
Since Piedmont Park Conservancy renovated Clara Meer in 2002, fishing in Piedmont Park is even better. The new bridge unifies the two parts of the lake into a single body of water, an aeration system improves water quality, and three new fishing piers and the dock make it easier than ever to find the right spot. | <urn:uuid:9deefc16-e822-49e9-8ab7-e8dff44b8542> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.piedmontpark.org/do/fishing.html | 2013-06-19T12:18:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925458 | 149 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The following information is taken from the National Post, Wednesday, October 09, 2002.
New procedure takes pain out of vasectomies
Doctor abandons needle, scalpel for painless spray
Wednesday, October 09, 2002
A new advance in the vasectomy procedure being offered in Canada eliminates the final remaining barrier for men concerned about the surgery: the needle that applies the anesthetic.
Dr. Neil Pollock, a surgeon in Vancouver, ended the need for a scalpel with new medical advances more than two years ago and now he is among the first in North America to no longer require a needle for the procedure.
He began using the new technique -- "No Needle Anesthesia" is accomplished by applying a pressurized jet spray to numb the area through a pen-like device -- last week. It is so new less than four other physicians have begun using it.
"There have been two main reasons that men have had huge fears about vasectomies," said Dr. Pollock, who runs four clinics and is considered a prominent expert on vasectomies.
"This is just going to take away that remaining kind of intimidation that guys have about vasectomy. When they find out there's no scalpel and now there is no needle, this can be an option for them."
Dr. Pollock said the new method is more effective and uses about 1/50th of the anesthetic required for vasectomies conducted with needles. In the latest technique, a jet injector delivers a hypospray of Xylocaine under pressure instantly.
Dr. Pollock will introduce the new technique to delegates attending a national family medicine conference in Montreal in November.
"We're always working to improve the quality of medical care," said Dr. Pollock. "And each additional alteration we can make to a standard technique that might reduce risk and anxiety to the patient is important. And it improves the quality of care.
"Vasectomy is an excellent safe and effective form of birth control," he added.
Sterilization for contraceptive purposes has recently become more common for men, according to the latest data from Statistics Canada.
By 1995 approximately 1.8 million men had undergone contraceptive sterilization compared with 1.5 million woman.
A Statistics Canada publication that examined trends in sterilization reported that almost half of all couples of childbearing age are sterile.
"These figures reveal significant changes in attitudes and behaviour over the last few decades," the report concludes.
"The most striking feature of the trend in contraception during the 1984 to 1995 period was, without doubt, the steady increase in the proportion of vasectomies and a corresponding decrease in tubal ligations."
Last year, Dr. Pollock received approval from Health Canada to conduct the first human clinical trials of a reversible male contraceptive implant, a device believed to be as effective as vasectomies for men or birth control pills for women.
He will present the results at the November conference.
Next, he will ask Health Canada to permit another round of more complicated clinical trials for the male reversible implants.
In the 1998 Canadian Contraception Study, which surveyed 1,599 women across Canada and was published in The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, two-thirds of females polled thought highly of sterilization as a birth control method.
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I had a recent conversation with a tech at MCE who informed me that the company has received the "shells" for their DVD/CD-RW Drives for the Pismo, Lombard, & Wallstreet. I was told that plans are going forward with remanufacturing the DVD/CD-RW drives for the Pismo & Lombard . . . no decision has been made regarding the Wallstreet version. Those of you who have tried know that the original MCE Xcarét Pro DVD/CD-RW Drive had a limited production in 1998-2000 and is almost impossible to find on E-Bay, etc.
If there is a groundswell of support, perhaps MCE will put the Wallstreet version back into production as well? Contact "Ben" at MCE (800-5000-MAC) to express your interest in this.
In the meantime, if anyone knows of a place to purchase an original Wallstreet MCE Xcarét Pro DVD/CD-RW Drive please send me the contact info. Thanks ! | <urn:uuid:d8dd6a4f-7b43-4ffc-80b8-150defce383d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.powerbookmedic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=186&view=previous | 2013-06-19T12:53:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960894 | 213 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Datawatch Announces Fiscal First Quarter 2013 Financial Results
CHELMSFORD, Mass., Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Datawatch Corporation (NASDAQ-CM: DWCH), the leading global provider of information optimization solutions, today announced that total revenue for its first quarter ended December 31, 2012 was $6.82 million, an increase of 9% from revenue of $6.27 million in the first quarter a year ago. License revenue for the first quarter of fiscal 2013 was $4.33 million, an increase of 3% from the $4.21 million recorded in the comparable quarter a year ago. Net loss for the first quarter of fiscal 2013 was $222,000, or ($0.03) per diluted share, compared to net income of $603,000, or $0.09 per diluted share, for the year ago period. Excluding the effects of the non-cash amortization associated with the purchase of the Monarch intellectual property in March 2012 as well as non-cash stock compensation costs, the Company’s non-GAAP net income for its first fiscal quarter of 2013 was $786,000, or $0.11 per diluted share, compared to $751,000, or $0.12 per diluted share in the first fiscal quarter of 2012.
Michael A. Morrison, president and CEO of Datawatch, said, “The first quarter of fiscal 2013 represented a significant pivot point for Datawatch. During the quarter, we re-introduced ourselves to the market with a clear and compelling message, more strategic positioning and a new brand. We delivered an aggressive training and enablement program for our worldwide sales organization and our global alliance partners around this new messaging and positioning. The early results from this important shift in messaging and positioning are promising. As a result of our new approach, the opportunities we are pursuing are much more strategic to the enterprise. The relative size of these opportunities is bigger and the contacts with whom we are working within these enterprises are higher level. We have already secured several key new name customers pursuing this strategy, and this bodes well for our continued success in implementing our plans to build upon Datawatch’s strengths for the long-term.”
Mr. Morrison continued, “Our new messaging and positioning are also having a positive effect on our market awareness, as competitors, industry analysts, financial analysts and organizations of all sizes are beginning to recognize the value that can be achieved with Datawatch’s Information Optimization solutions. I am confident that the steps that we have taken thus far, along with our plans for the remainder of this fiscal year, make Datawatch more enterprise-ready from a sales, product and services perspective as we seek to showcase the importance of variety in Big Data and Business Intelligence applications. Finally, our first fiscal quarter of 2013 also produced solid results as we executed on our newly launched partnership strategy, with the addition of 13 new partners to our global ecosystem. These partners strengthen our domain expertise, increase our geographic coverage and enhance our ability to meet the complex needs of enterprise customers.”
First Quarter Business Highlights
- Datawatch entered into a master reseller agreement with Koncerndata in Sweden to represent Datawatch’s Information Optimization solutions throughout the Nordic region. Koncerndata, which will operate as Datawatch Nordics, has a long track record of success selling business analytic software solutions into the Nordic market, including as Hyperion Nordics, representing Hyperion Solutions (which was acquired by Oracle) and as Outlooksoft Nordics, representing Outlooksoft Corporation (which was acquired by SAP).
- Datawatch entered into business alliances with 13 new partners, including Panorama Software, a global leader in Business Intelligence 3.0 solutions; Xerox in Canada; Reddot in Russia; Comesio in Austria; 2Quadrant in Czech, Slovakia and Hungary; Sky Solutions in North America; and Tricor in Japan.
- The Methodist Hospital System in Houston, Texas bought Datawatch’s denial management analytics solution for dashboard views of 835 EDI healthcare remittance data to assist in the revenue cycle management process. Datawatch’s denial management analytics solution provides out-of-the-box dashboards to analyze denied claims, denied claims by reason code, inpatient vs. outpatient claims history and more.
- Datawatch released Datawatch Enterprise Server 11.5, which introduces Monarch Power Client for seamless connectivity and interaction with Datawatch Enterprise Server and which supports Japanese and simplified Chinese character sets. With this new release, organizations throughout the world will be able to leverage existing investments in Monarch to enable self-service delivery and consumption of models, reports and analysis over the Web.
First Quarter Financial Highlights
- Cash and short-term investments were $8.94 million at December 31, 2012, up 2% from $8.72 million at September 30, 2012 and down 7% from $9.65 million at December 31, 2011. In March 2012, the company used $3.04 million in cash to partially fund the purchase of the Monarch intellectual property, and since that time used another $600,000 to partially pay down its $1.5 million working capital loan with Silicon Valley Bank.
- Gross margin for the first fiscal quarter of 2013 was 84.6%, compared to 82.8% for the fourth fiscal quarter of 2012 and 80.2% for the first fiscal quarter of 2012.
- Days sales outstanding were 61 days at December 31, 2012, compared to 70 days at September 30, 2012 and 52 days at December 31, 2011.
- There were 5 six-figure deals in the first fiscal quarter of 2013, the same number as in the first fiscal quarter of 2012.
- The average deal size in the first fiscal quarter of 2013 was $49,000, as compared to $87,000 in the first fiscal quarter of 2012. The average deal size in the first fiscal quarter of 2012 was positively impacted by a seven-figure license transaction in that quarter.
“We enter the second fiscal quarter of 2013 with our sales teams and partners effectively utilizing our new messaging and positioning, increased market awareness and credibility, and a strong and growing pipeline of activity for our Information Optimization solutions. As a result, we are confident that we will see a re-acceleration of revenue growth in the next nine months of fiscal 2013 from the rate we saw in the first fiscal quarter of 2013,” stated Mr. Morrison.
Investor Conference Call and Webcast
The senior management of Datawatch will host a conference call and webcast to discuss the first quarter results this afternoon, Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at 4:30 pm ET. To access the call, please dial 1-877-407-0782. Internationally, the call may be accessed by dialing +1-201-689-8567. The conference call will be broadcast live on the Internet at: http://www.investorcalendar.com/IC/CEPage.asp?ID=170375. It is recommended that listeners register to participate and download any necessary audio software from the website 15 minutes prior to the scheduled call. The webcast will be available as a replay starting one hour after the call is completed at the same location.
ABOUT DATAWATCH CORPORATION
Datawatch Corporation (NASDAQ-CM: DWCH) is a leader in providing information optimization products and solutions that allow organizations to deliver the greatest data variety possible into their big data and analytic applications. Datawatch provides organizations the ability to integrate structured, unstructured, and semi-structured sources like reports, PDF files, and EDI streams into these applications to provide a 360 degree perspective of the issues and opportunities that exist in their businesses. More than 40,000 organizations worldwide use Datawatch’s products and services, including 99 of the Fortune 100, and businesses of every type can benefit from the power and flexibility of Datawatch’s industry leading solutions. Datawatch is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts with offices in London, Munich, Singapore, Sydney and Manila, and with partners and customers in more than 100 countries worldwide. For more information, visit www.datawatch.com.
Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995
Any statements contained in this press release that do not describe historical facts may constitute forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any such statements, including but not limited to those relating to results of operations, contained herein are based on current expectations, but are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. The factors that could cause actual future results to differ materially from current expectations include the following: risks associated with the continuing weak global economy; risks associated with fluctuations in quarterly operating results due, among other factors, to the size and timing of large customer orders; the volatility of Datawatch’s stock price; limitations on the effectiveness of internal controls; rapid technological change; Datawatch’s dependence on the introduction of new products and possible delays in those introductions; competition in the software industry generally, and in the markets for information optimization in particular; Datawatch’s dependence on its principal products, proprietary software technology and software licensed from third parties; risks associated with international sales; risks associated with indirect distribution channels; the adequacy of Datawatch’s sales returns reserve; risks associated with a subscription sales model; risks associated with acquisitions, including the recent acquisition of intellectual property from Math Strategies; Datawatch’s dependence on its ability to hire and retain skilled personnel; disruption or failure of Datawatch’s technology systems that may result from a natural disaster, cyber-attack or other catastrophic event; and uncertainty and additional costs that may result from evolving regulation of corporate governance and public disclosure. Further information on factors that could cause actual results to differ from those anticipated is detailed in various publicly-available documents, which include, but are not limited to, filings made by Datawatch from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including but not limited to, those appearing in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2012. Any forward-looking statements should be considered in light of those factors.
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Use of Non-GAAP Financial Information
To supplement our financial results presented in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), this press release and the accompanying tables contain certain non-GAAP financial measures that we believe are helpful in understanding our past financial performance and future results. Our non-GAAP financial measures are not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for comparable GAAP measures and should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP. Our management regularly uses our supplemental non-GAAP financial measures internally to understand and manage our business and make operating decisions. Our non-GAAP financial measures include adjustments based on the following items, as well as the related income tax effects and adjustments to the valuation allowance:
Amortization of purchased software: We have excluded the effect of amortization of the Monarch software and related intellectual property that we acquired from Math Strategies on March 30, 2012 from our non-GAAP operating expenses and net income measures. Amortization of this purchased software resulted from a material transaction that is not likely to occur in the foreseeable future. Investors should note that the use of the purchased software will contribute to future period revenues. Amortization of the purchased software will recur in future periods.
Share-based compensation expenses: We have excluded the effect of share-based compensation expenses from our non-GAAP operating expenses and net income measures. Although share-based compensation is a key incentive offered to our employees, we continue to evaluate our business performance excluding share-based compensation expenses. Share-based compensation expenses will recur in future periods.
DATAWATCH CORPORATION Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations Amounts in Thousands (except per share data) (Unaudited) Three Months Ended December 31, 2012 2011 ---- ---- REVENUE: Software licenses $4,330 $4,208 Maintenance 2,333 1,717 Professional services 158 346 Total revenue 6,821 6,271 COSTS AND EXPENSES: Cost of software licenses 521 575 Cost of maintenance and services 530 668 Sales and marketing 3,776 2,801 Engineering and product development 853 628 General and administrative 1,191 967 Total costs and expenses 6,871 5,639 (LOSS) INCOME FROM OPERATIONS (50) 632 Other (expense) income (163) 9 ---- --- (LOSS) INCOME BEFORE INCOME TAXES (213) 641 Income tax provision 9 38 --- --- NET (LOSS) INCOME $(222) $603 ===== ==== Net (loss) income per share - Basic $(0.03) $0.10 ====== ===== Net (loss) income per share - Diluted $(0.03) $0.09 ====== ===== Weighted Average Shares Outstanding -Basic 6,378 6,164 ===== ===== Weighted Average Shares Outstanding -Diluted 6,378 6,359 ===== ===== Non-GAAP Disclosure - Reconciliation of Net Income to Net Income Excluding the Effects of Certain Items: GAAP Net (Loss) Income $(222) $603 Add-back Amortization of Monarch IP 431 - Add-back Share-Based Compensation 577 148 --- --- Net income (non-GAAP) $786 $751 ==== ==== Net income per share - Basic $0.12 $0.12 ===== ===== Net income per share - Diluted $0.11 $0.12 ===== ===== Weighted Average Shares Outstanding -Basic 6,378 6,164 ===== ===== Weighted Average Shares Outstanding -Diluted 6,888 6,359 ===== =====
DATAWATCH CORPORATION Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets Amounts in Thousands (Unaudited) December 31, September 30, 2012 2012 ---- ---- Cash and cash equivalents $8,937 $8,722 Accounts receivable, net 4,300 4,391 Prepaid expenses and other current assets 863 591 --- --- Total current assets 14,100 13,704 Property and equipment, net 264 281 Intangible and other assets, net 8,314 8,820 ----- ----- $22,678 $22,805 ======= ======= Current portion of long- term debt $900 $900 Accounts payable and accrued expenses 2,163 2,468 Deferred revenue - current portion 5,983 6,295 ----- ----- Total current liabilities 9,046 9,663 Note payable 3,022 2,983 Other long- term liabilities 453 466 --- --- Total long- term liabilities 3,475 3,449 Total shareholders' equity 10,157 9,693 ------ ----- $22,678 $22,805 ======= =======
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SHANGQIU, China -- This is not the equivalent of Silicon Valley. There isn't a lab in sight or a high-tech industrial park in the area. What attracts most of the attention is a two-floor factory building with a signboard that reads "Shangqiu Sanli New Energy Demonstration."
Still, this is a noteworthy place. It is healing one of China's long-standing headaches.
That headache is straw, basically an agricultural waste collected from nearby farms. Workers here chop it, compress it, then heat it slowly in sophisticated, oxygen-free ovens to produce biochar, a sort of charcoal that can be used as soil amendments. What remains -- two types of liquids called wood tar and wood vinegar -- are removed to sealed vessels and are sold as eco-friendly pesticides and soil conditioners.
Through this, the factory produces industrial goods worth nearly $10 million per year. The process also produces a combustible gas that it converts into electricity -- to run the machinery.
China has lots of straw. The nation is scrambling for ways to dispose of this agricultural waste, and companies like Shangqiu Sanli New Energy Ltd. are among a few that have succeeded. But figuring out how to scale this up remains a daunting challenge.
At the end of harvest season, China's breadbaskets, from the Yangtze River Delta on the coast to the landlocked Sichuan Basin, turn into a sea of baled straw. In some places it can extend to the horizon.
Chinese farmers used to store straw for cooking and heating. But with their rising incomes and growing desire for an easier life, more rural families began buying coal briquettes and bottled liquefied petroleum gas instead. So they simply set fire to straw.
Burning straw is a major cause of smog. The smoky air also has a pungent odor that causes coughing and other health problems. Sometimes it even costs lives as dense, eye-smarting smoke clouds drift over roads and lead to car crashes.
Lawmakers here have tried to ban straw burning, but farmers in a hurry to clean fields for the next planting often ignore that. In places like eastern China's Anhui province, the government sent drones aloft to identify the straw burners.
Tapping into folk wisdom
In 2005, after hearing about farmers in neighboring villages being jailed for burning straw, Lin Zhenheng, then a 48-year-old entrepreneur, decided to seek a solution.
Lin's company, Shangqiu Sanli New Energy, first consulted farmers who have mastered the use of straw for years. Then it brought in some experts. About a year later, the company came out with a pilot facility in the heart of Henan province, one of China's major crop-producing regions.
The facility turns straw into biochar and wood tar, cleaner-burning alternatives to diesel fuel. It also produces wood vinegar out of straw -- a liquid that makes nonarable soil grow crops. The facility captures a large quantity of combustible gas from the process to meet its own energy needs and to heat a nearby hotel and a public bathroom -- a popular facility in rural China.
The company later found that its biochar can improve soil quality and its biodegradable wood tar can kill pests in farmland while doing little harm to Earth.
The discoveries have whetted Lin's appetite for more straw business. His company now runs seven such facilities across the region and disposes of 200,000 tons of straw every year.
Helping with jobs and climate change
As the means of reusing straw have increased, so have employment opportunities. The company provides more than 400 factory jobs to rural communities and helps turn wasteland into farmland so that more villagers can work in their hometowns rather than migrating to cities.
Last year, the company persuaded dozens of rural communities to stop using coal by supplying them with equipment that processes straw into pellets to compete with coal. Some farmers found using biochar can keep the same crop yield while cutting fertilizer use by a quarter. | <urn:uuid:3ea8422b-7774-41b1-9bf8-05d62ba059ca> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=can-straw-provide-chinas-energy-needs&WT.mc_id=SA_CAT_ENGYSUS_20130221 | 2013-06-19T12:49:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947403 | 829 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Re: arm_memblock_steal() API usage
RMK, On 03-Apr-12 1:00 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
We don't want to do a kmalloc and flush, we want to do something similar to how OMAP4 does, keeping aside a chunk of RAM for saving the contents. But my only concern what willOn Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 09:34:03AM +0530, Taniya Das wrote:I have a requirement where I need around ~100 bytes of memory to save contents of registers to a non-cached area before going into low power mode. I did do some analysis on a 1GB RAM device of allocating 8 bytes using the API and the below was the result was showing allocating only 8 bytes. API used : - arm_memblock_steal(SZ_8, SZ_64K);--> physical address returned is 0x3b1f0000It's silly to use this for the above purpose. Why not just use kmalloc and cache flushing to ensure that the data is pushed out to RAM?
be the minimum amount of memory allocated by arm_memblock_steal?
Also is this API advisable for devices with low system RAM?No.
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1) Until I saw clips of him in the past two or three days, I hadn't realized how much watching and seeing Perry is just like having George W. Bush back in our living rooms. Maybe this will be an ingredient for strong conservative support. I can't imagine that any sophisticated Republican operative thinks it's a plus in winning 270 electoral votes. When Republicans ran against the first post-Nixon Democratic president, in 1980, they didn't try to find someone who looked and sounded like Tricky Dick.
2) Just after Sarah Palin was nominated three years ago, I argued that anyone who moves all at once from state-level to national-level politics is going to be shocked by the greater intensity of the scrutiny and the broader range of expertise called for. Therefore that person is destined to make mistakes; the question is how bad they will be. For Palin, they showed up in her disastrous first few interviews, especially with Katie Couric. Perry is getting his own introduction to this principle just now.
3) For the past few months, Democrats have had the suspicion that Republicans are playing a double or even triple-game in opposing the Obama Administration on spending and deficit issues. At the most principled levels, they're upholding their belief in a smaller government. At the next level down, they're trying to limit Obama's operational successes wherever they can. And, most cynical of all, they understand the idea of "the worse, the better." The surest path toward beating Obama next year is for the economy to stagnate or decline.
Perry's comments about Ben Bernanke cut through any such subtlety. If Bernanke "prints money" in the next 15 months, toward the end of forestalling a recession or preserving jobs, Perry would consider that "almost treasonous." This is the kind of thing you just don't hear from national-level politicians, and for a reason. (For starters: the punishment for treason is death.)
Obama looks better the more the Republican field displays its outlook and temperament. Romney looks better the more the anyone-but-Romney alternatives come into full view.
UPDATE: Brad DeLong of Berkeley, with whom I usually agree, somewhat snottily contends that Republicans have been saying this all the way along. When it comes to thwarting Obama, and playing the game of "the worse, the better," of course they have, as many people including me keep pointing out.
But when it comes to presidential candidates making accusations of treason, a capital offense, against (Republican-appointed) financial officials, unt-uh. That is obviously what I was talking about, and that is in fact new. As I am sure DeLong will realize on second thought.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (TheStreet) -- Oh, so you think you're a skilled car shopper because you're waiting until Presidents Day to go buy a new vehicle? Good luck reliving Black Friday.
There's no consensus on the best time to buy a car, but it's definitely not during a holiday sale that everyone near a television, radio or local news site knows about. Some experts, including those at Lifehacker, argue that the best time to get out there is in September and October, when the new models are just coming in and dealers are in a rush to get old models off the floors and lots.
The folks at AOL Cars were of the belief that the best time to buy was last month, when dealers needed to make end-of-year sales quotas and were willing to offer rebates and discounts as high as 30%. The numbers seem to back that up, as auto sales increased 9% in December and helped automakers sell 14.5 million cars last year, up 13.4% from 2011.
The truth is; Any time the weather takes a turn for the gray, miserable worst and the dealerships are empty is the best time to make a deal. That's especially true from now until about mid-February, when the first income tax refunds start trickling in and everybody starts heading to the lots flush with cash.There are deals out there for folks in the northern states willing to brave some of the bleakest weeks on the calendar. We consulted with the folks at auto pricing site TrueCar and found five vehicles worth checking out this winter:
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Case 17 never ends, yet now comes ...
Case 18 - Joshu's Dog
A fundamental Mahayana Teaching is that all sentient beings have (or, as Dogen sang, are) Buddha-nature ... even when hidden from us. That includes man's best friend, most Mahayana philosophers would traditionally agree.
So, when asked, "Does a dog have Buddha nature?" Joshu responded "Yes" ... yet when asked again, "No" (Mu).
Yet, this "Mu" is not merely some negative statement, the mirror image of "Yes". Nor is it some hesitancy or ambiguity, like "Yes, but also no too".
"MU!" is the Dance of Emptiness, the Dog's Bark and Bite, where all questions of "yes" or "no" and philosophical debating drop away in the resounding "YES! YES! YES!".
It is to stop search for one's Buddha Nature like a dog chasing its tail ...
It is not the dog chasing the tail ... nor the tail chasing the dog ... but the very Circle that is Buddha, walking running sitting standing, both tail chasing or sitting still, barking or scratching fleas ... MU! nose to tail.
When will you give up the chase, and find What's What all along? Dog backwards is God nature ... maybe also to be found in dropping "Yes" vs. "No"!
The Koan contains a couple of lines which may speak of intentionally living and remaining in this sometimes cuddly and beautiful, sometimes "bitch of a dog eat dog" world ... to live out our Bodhisattva Vow to Save All Sentient Beings. If we have "Buddha-Nature" all along, why lead this "dog of a life" in this "bag of skin"? The Koan references this as to "get into that bag of skin" as a lowly dog, because "knowingly he purposely offends". Even though embodying the purity of Buddha, the Boddhisattva chooses to remain alive in this world of sometime ignorance ... where we cannot help but to knowingly offend again and again, sometimes driven down to our animal nature ... in order to carry out the mission. Likewise, "Karmic Consiousness" traditionally did not have a positive meaning in Mahayana Buddhism, but was the divided, ignorant consciousness of self and our actions arising therefrom. However, "Mu!" exists right in and as this divided consciousness ... form is no other than emptiness, enlightenment is found no where but at the Heart of delusion.
In the "Preface to the Assembly" ... a floating gourd or diamond may have a "yes" side or a "no" side or facet. Yet which facet alone is the Whole Spinning Fruit, the Complete Jewel? Is it not the same for a "deluded" facet and an "enlightened" facet and all other categories?
Don't get "hooked" by words and categories ... yes or no, delusion vs. Buddhas. Thus, in the "Appreciatory verse", we catch this fish not with a hook, but an impossibly straight needle with no place to bite. Don't make debates and arguments ... about whether clouds hold water like a guest, or clouds rain down water, or clouds are water ... and so with debates about you and Buddha-nature. Let it Rain! Likewise, the reference to "King Shin and Shojo Rin" is from an old story about a Jewel that cannot be given away.
What deep, personal issue or question in your life might be resolved not by "yes" ... not by "no" ... but by "MU!" or "YES! YES! YES!" that swallows whole both yes and no? It could be anything from the existence of God to being torn about whether to get married or change jobs and move to another town. HOWEVER, VERY IMPORTANT, I am not talking about merely resolving the question with some "well, yes on the one hand ... but no on the other". I am not talking about some shoulder shrugging "yes and no" or "I don't know" or making a list of "Pros and Cons".
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First Look: Mick Jagger Unveils Genre-Bending Musical Collaboration
A small group recently gathered at Jim Henson Studios in Hollywood to bob their heads in unison to new tracks by a band of all-star musicians who call themselves SuperHeavy—a creative reference to super heavyweight world champion Muhammed Ali.
SuperHeavy is a cooperative project of Rolling Stones front-man icon Mick Jagger, Eurythmics co-founder Dave Stewart, soul sensation Joss Stone, reggae star Damian Marley, and legendary Indian film composer A. R. Rahman. Together, they have created a musical rarity—a truly new sound, drawing from a combination of diverse musical styles. The results are mesmerizing.With four lead vocalists collaborating on a single project, one could expect some chaos, but what has grown out of the SuperHeavy union is sharp, emotional, and irresistible. It’s part world music, part soul, and part rock ’n’ roll.
Stewart said the diversity of sounds was by design. “It’s been a strange, interesting process,” he said during a small news conference announcing the project. “But we love the end result. It is powerful, new music. We created this sort of rocking, dancing, fusion of music.”
“It’s going to go into the ‘unknown’ section of iTunes,” Jagger mused. “Like the place things get lost. Sometimes I think, ‘Didn’t I buy that? Where did that go?’ And I find it in some department of iTunes called Unclassifiable.”
The group, whose members share 11 Grammys among them, recorded the new album all over the world, but most of it is local L.A., having been recorded at Jim Henson Studios. “It evolved in several countries,” Stewart said, “but started in this room.”
The band wrote 22 songs in the first six days and recently filmed the music video for their first single, “Miracle Worker,” at Paramount Studios.
There is no real talk yet of the band performing live, but when asked about a possible tour, they seemed open to the idea. Fingers crossed.
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The quest for a modest immortality may be genetic.
Dec 21, 2009, Vol. 15, No. 14 • By BARTON SWAIM
Every writer, when young, expects to achieve greatness and notoriety. We hear our names taught in undergraduate classrooms and see our works--even before we've written them--bound in "classic" editions long after we're gone. The melancholy fact that success in writing is rarer than success in professional sports, itself almost a statistical impossibility, is hard to face for a young writer--especially one reared on the corrosive trumpery that you can be anything you want to be.
For my own part, I've long since lowered my sights. I come from a family of minor writers and intend to join that class in due course. By "minor" I mean something like third-tier--not third-rate, now. What characterizes a third-rate writer is that he can't write. Not that I would object to being a third-rater myself; many third-raters become fabulously rich, and in any case there's something to be said for a man who can make millions by doing something he's no good at.
The minor writer never gets rich, never achieves anything more than momentary fame, and nobody would call his works important. He has admirers, and he may write a highly regarded book now and again, but he is destined to be remembered, if at all, in the footnotes of monographs nobody reads.
What makes the minor writer worth remembering is that his writings achieve some modest, honorable goal. "[It is] not necessary," writes Samuel Johnson,
Literary minority, as I say, runs in my family. My great-great grandfather Joseph Swaim was the first cousin of Mary Jane Virginia Swaim, who married Algernon Sidney Porter. Their son was William Sydney Porter. O. Henry--as he is better known--is just the sort of writer I mean: clever, wise, unpretentious, and unimportant.
My maternal grandmother was a Sewell. Her grandmother was the cousin of Anna Sewell, author of one book, Black Beauty. It is a delightful work--a little predictable and, of course, unsubtle in its intentions, but not at all forgettable.
I discovered another minor writer firmly within my lineage not long ago when a book was passed on to me after the death of an elderly aunt. It's titled William Swaim, Fighting Editor, published in Greensboro in 1963. William Swaim, proprietor and editor of the Greensborough Patriot, was Mary Jane Virginia's father, and so O. Henry's grandfather.
Actually to call William a minor writer is a bit of a stretch: He is completely unknown, without so much as a Wikipedia entry. And yet, in a sense, what he did with his pen was greater than what Hemingway and Sartre did with theirs. William Swaim was born in Guilford County, North Carolina, in 1802. He was raised on a farm and received only a few intermittent months of schooling, between the ages of 12 and 16. At 17, William's father took his boy to the Guilford County Courthouse in Greensborogh (as it was then spelled), and as William watched the proceedings of the courtroom, with all its displays of eloquence, he realized that he wanted to make his way in the world by means of his mind. Yet when he returned home he was dismayed to find that he could barely read, and couldn't write at all.
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Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore announced that Mario Girau (DOB 07/22/38) of 140 Tuckahoe Road, Yonkers, New York was sentenced today to an indeterminate sentence of fifteen years to life in state prison on his November 2008 guilty plea to one count of Murder in the Second Degree, a class ďAĒ Felony relating to the death of his wife, Maria Montalvo-Girau.†
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Perfectly positioned alongside Sydney's World famous Bondi Beach, the Swiss-Grand is a great hotel, packed with uniqueness and extras. At the hotel entrance we were greeted by a porter who took our bags and directed us to Reception. Entering the lobby for the first time was an experience to remember. The overly spacious lobby lounge, decked out with classic era furniture of days gone by gave way to a huge atrium surrounded by the hotel's 3 floors of accommodation. Check-in was handled promptly, and we then proceeded to take the car to the separately run car park on the other side of the building. The car park was easily accessable and was spacious and near to the lift. On arrival on the third floor, which is the first floor of rooms we moved down hallways decorated with prints of Bondi Beach in in the 1880s, 1900s, 1930s and 1940s. These maginificent prints in gold frames take you back to the very earliest days of this colossal beach. Our room, as all rooms are at the Swiss-Grand, was in fact a suite. The entrance took us into a lounge room with a sofa (which can convert to a bed) a TV, mini-bar, a small dining table and two chairs and a full length kitchen sink. There were no cooking facilities but it appeared the hotel could easily convert to apartment style studio accommodation simply by adding a microwave or small stove. In the centre of the suite was the bathroom, which was quite servicable but could be improved. The wash basin taps and the shower recess smacked of an economical construction. The shower panels were not sturdy. The shower rose emitted water as though there was a water saving device fitted and was quite sharp. The usual guest amentities were not provided. In their place was a large shampoo and conditioning lotion pack actually in the shower recess. This was a welcomed novelty as often the guest amentities provided are in very small bottles and are often very thick and a little hard to use. There was a three quarter size bath in the bathrooms, adequate bench space and plenty of lighting. In fact lighting throughout the suite, unlike many hotel rooms these days, was excellent. The next room was the bedroom which comprises two twin beds. There was no option given at reception, however this did not present a problem. The beds however were quite small, though relatively comfortable. The colour scheme of the soft furnishings was blue and gold, intended to match the colours of the sea. A reasonably substantial wardrobe was provided, two wide drawers and plenty of additional cupboard space and shelving. A second TV was provided, an in-room and even a bedroom wash-basin. A writing desk and chair was included with an Internet keyboard, which seemingly, for a charge, could be used in conjunction with the TV for Internet connection. You could also connect to the Net by dial-up, using the telephone hand-set which had a data port. There were in fact three telephones, one in the living room, one in the bathroom and one in the bedroom. The room booked through Metrostar.com was labelled a partial ocean view room and it was exactly that. There were views off to the side from an in-step balcony which was of a triangular shape, and because of the width could not be used other than for standing and looking out. There was no furniture on the balcony, nor was there any space for any. The rooms, freshly painted in primrose yellow and with the blue and gold bedspreads, drapes and upholstery were a terrific back-drop to the setting. Bondi Beach is just a few miles east of the city (Sydney) and is surrounded by sidewalk cafes, restaurants and specialty shops. The promenade alongside the beach is littered with tables and chairs serviced by the adjacent restaurants and eateries. The hotel itself has a garden restaurant, the Epic Brasserie, where we feasted on a sumptious buffet. The cost was $35 a head which was a little over the top. The variety was not stretched however. The salads and seafood appetisers were somewhat limited as were the main dishes, which consisted of a meat and fish offering and roast lamb. The desserts were also somewhat limiting and there was no fresh or whipped cream provided. The hotel also provided a buffet breakfast at around $20 a head, however we did not partake of this during our stay. The hotel also has a cocktail bar adjoining the main restaurant and on the lower floor there's the Blue Chip Bar and Gaming roon. This is open from 11am until late each dayand there is a Happy Hour every day from 4pm to 7pm. At this time "schooners" of beer (15 oz) are $2.80. Bands, local talents (Thursdays) and DJs provide entertainment on Thursdays through Saturdays. Parking at the hotel was included in our tariff, however when we went to take the car out we were told we needed our 'charge card' given to us at reception. Unforrtunately this wasn't told to us so it was back to our room from the car park to retrieve it. Other than that the parking was spacious and easy to access. On the Sunday morning we tried the outdoor spa on the roof however it was cold. Even after waiting for it to warm up the temperature remained the same. The 25 metre pool alongside was equally as cold so instead we made our way to the beach and an early surf. The weather was brilliant, warm for Winter and this added to the quality of the stay. The Swiss-Grand Hotel on Bondi Beach is a good standard 4 star hotel with excellent facilities. There is also a lower ground floor gym which is fully equipped. It is run separately and although some tariffs include the charge, some do not. 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St. Louis took the opposite tact, racing out to a 6-0 lead early, then depending on its bullpen to hold on for a 6-4 victory over the San Francisco Giants in front of 42,534 at AT&T Park on Sunday in the NLCS opener.
Jason Motte, the last of seven Cardinals pitchers, closed out the victory. St. Louis relievers retired 12 straight Giants, and 14 of 15 from one out in the fifth, before Angel Pagan reached with a two-out single in the ninth.
Edward Mujica struck out the side in his one inning of work in the seventh, and he was awarded the victory. Mitchell Boggs enjoyed a perfect eighth with two popups and a groundout.
In the ninth, Motte retired Brandon Crawford on a fly to center, pinch hitter Hector Sanchez on a pop to left and Marco Scutaro on a grounder to first base after Pagan singled to right-center.
St. Louis scored four times in the fourth to chase Giants starter Madison Bumgarner.
Daniel Descalso and Pete Kozma hit consecutive groundball doubles into the right and left field corners, respectively, with one out for the first run. Kozma stole third and scored when Jon Jay touched Bumgarner for a soft single to center with two outs on an 0-2 count.
Bumgarner got two strikes on Carlos Beltran, but Cardinals' No. 2 hitter picked on a low fastball and drove it deep into the left field stands for a two-run homer and 6-0 lead.
The Giants, held without a hit by Cardinals starter Lance Lynn through three, batted around against the right-hander to answer with four runs of their own in the fourth, and all of the scoring came with two outs.
Brandon Belt's broken bat single to center scored Scutaro from third. Gregor Blanco tripled to right-center to plate Hunter Pence and Belt. Crawford doubled to right to score Blanco, chasing Lynn. | <urn:uuid:2ca998bc-1de7-4e27-9975-5a347ed20494> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wlky.com/news/sports/Cardinals-top-Giants-6-4/-/9366098/16986998/-/9s9vpnz/-/index.html | 2013-06-19T12:21:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948762 | 414 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Deborah Lee Benning
- Published: December 3, 2009
Deborah Lee Benning of Yellow Springs died Nov. 24, after a courageous battle with cancer, surrounded by her family. She was 62.
Deborah was born Sep. 12, 1947. She was a fixture in the community and an active participant in a number of civic activities. She was clerk for the Yellow Springs Council for 17 years. Deborah’s tenure at the Village completes 200 years of service by the Benning family, who first arrived in Yellow Springs in 1864.
Deborah loved to laugh, watch football, plan events for her family, and travel. She was one of four children born to the late Etta Belle Harris and Chester Benning and was the beloved mother of Cheryl Williams of Chandler, Ariz. and Asara Martin of Dayton. Deborah will forever be remembered by her loving siblings, Gail Ballard of Dayton, Peter Benning of Toledo, Byron Benning and Faith Murphy Knight, both of Atlanta, Ga.; treasured grandchildren Noah Watkins and Jacob Allen of Chandler, Ariz.; along with one great-grandchild, Arla Watkins, long-time partner Ron Robinson and daughter Ashanta Robinson of Yellow Springs.
Friends and family are invited to attend a memorial service on Saturday, Dec. 5, from 1 to 2 p.m., at Bryan Community Center at 100 Dayton Street. The family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations be made in Deborah’s name to the American Cancer Society and/or the American Porphyria Foundation. | <urn:uuid:bf2cdc36-062a-48a4-9eb4-211c85133a80> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ysnews.com/news/2009/12/deborah-lee-benning | 2013-06-19T12:26:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708766848/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125246-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959009 | 316 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
New GOP group promotes judicial nominees
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former White House Counsel C. Boyden Gray announced Tuesday he was forming a new group to pressure the Democratic-controlled Senate to approve President Bush's judicial nominees.
Gray, who was White House consel in the first Bush administration, said the newly formed Committee for Justice has the mission of defending and promoting the judicial confirmation process.
"Some nominees to the federal bench have been held up for more than a year," Gray said. "This not only threatens the integrity and process of the judiciary, but undermines the intent of the Constitution."
The Clinton White House complained about Republicans senators blocking its judicial nominees when the GOP was in the majority in that chamber. The Bush administration now has the same complaint about the Democratic-controlled Senate.
"The confirmation process has become politicized to an unprecedented degree, doing grave harm to our judicial system," Gray said. "The Senate leadership is blocking President Bush's nominees as a way of advancing a political and ideological agenda, in close coordination with some of the most left-wing groups in this country."
By Senate tradition, a senator may put a "hold" on a nomination for a judicial post affecting his state. Senators from both parties have made use of the process in the past decade.
"The Senate's constitutional role is to provide 'advice and consent' to the president's judicial nominees," he said. "Today's Senate Democrats, however, believe that any individual senator has a right to veto President Bush's nominees. This is an intolerable and unacceptable interpretation of the Constitution. One senator should not be able to decide for the remaining 49 states who should be sitting as a judge in those states."
Gray said committee members hope their efforts will counter those of the People for the American Way, a liberal lobbying group that has spent considerable resources on efforts to oppose conservative Bush nominees. The committee will buy advertising in the states of those senators who are holding up confirmations, Gray said.
He also presented a television advertisement criticizing Texas Democrat Ron Kirk for his opposition to Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen, a Bush nominee to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Lobbyist Ed Rodgers and international trade lawyer Edwin Williamson, both members of the first Bush administration, joined Gray as founders of the new committee. Members include Republican Govs. John Engler of Michigan and Frank Keating of Oklahoma, former Sen. Connie Mack of Florida, former White House Counsel Fred Fielding and former Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour.
Democrats have disputed Republican accusations that they are unfairly holding up Bush's judicial nominations.
In May, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy said that in the 10 months of Democratic leadership in the Senate, that body confirmed 56 judges. That was more than were confirmed during each of the 12 months in the years 1996 through 2000, when Republicans controlled the Senate and Clinton was in the White House, said Leahy, D-Vermont.
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January 29, 2013
Around the Southwest: Hall's choice
Daeshon Hall is committed to Washington but looking at other options in his home state of Texas. Get the scoop on that and more.
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TEETWAL, India — They used to live on the mountain just across the river valley, in mud houses and wooden ones, and they waved when they walked down the road and sometimes sent letters.
But now, those houses are gone. Metal roofs have slid down the mountainside, and the mud houses have disappeared into the earthquake rubble. Gul Hassan Shah has no idea what happened to his cousins, even though they once lived within shouting distance. They might as well have lived thousands of miles from here, though. This river between two mountain ranges marks the de facto border of disputed Kashmir, and no one can simply cross it to see family members because it is heavily guarded.
"They lived in the house next to the white house," said Shah, who believes he is about 70, pointing across the valley to Pakistan-controlled Kashmir and what remained of a white house. "You can't see it now, because it's crushed. I don't know where they are."
The mud house of Nishada Aziz's uncle also collapsed into a pile of dirt. So did the one next door, where Shamshada Zamir's aunt lived. All the villagers can do is look across the river from Teetwal, where their houses are also ruined, where people also died.
The 7.6-magnitude earthquake that struck Saturday, with an epicenter in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, has devastated this mountainous region, killing at least 23,000 in Pakistan and about 1,400 in India. But it's also struck at the heart of a long-term conflict over the fate of this Himalayan territory, which both countries have claimed since independence from Britain in 1947. The quake has been particularly hard on families separated for decades by conflict, unable to see each other without a lot of money, effort and time.
On the India side of Kashmir, people have worried about their relatives on the Pakistan side. They can only wait for a telephone call or a letter, but neither is likely for a while, considering the destruction in Pakistan.
Asmat Ara, who is about 35, sat in her family's home in India's Baramulla and cried about her 8-year-old daughter, Nayab, whose name means "something precious" in Urdu. Ara, who lives in Karachi, Pakistan, had tried to bring Nayab to see her family in India, but Nayab could not get permission to take the bus service, which started in April. So Ara left Nayab with relatives in Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-held Kashmir. The city was hit hard by the quake.
"I want to meet my daughter," said Ara, tears running down her face. "I don't know where she is, what she is doing. I don't know how she is and if she's all right."
Another woman in Baramulla had been trying to take the bus over to Muzaffarabad to visit the grave of her mother, who died five months ago. She also never got government permission. On Sunday, Shamima Akhtar, 45, found out that her brother and sister-in-law died in the earthquake in Muzaffarabad. She was too distraught to even talk about it, fainting throughout the day.
In the village of Teetwal, the reality of divided families hits home harder than in many places. Here, people can actually see their relatives, even if from afar.
In January 2004, many saw them closer, after a parade for India's Republic Day led to a spontaneous decision by Teetwal villagers to bring together relatives from both sides. Over a loudspeaker, the mosque called families to meet at the banks of the border river, called the Neelam in Pakistan and the Kishanganga in India.
Word spread, and soon families from all over Kashmir decided to meet on the sandy beaches.
Tariq Hussain Mir came from Pakistan to see his daughter, Nahila Tariq, for the first time in 10 years. He threw a rock across the river with a note on it to let her know he was there. She came and sent a chicken and clothes over to her father in a wicker basket, hung on a rope pulley.
Since the earthquake, Tariq has no idea what has happened to her father, who went to Pakistan as an Indian spy, ended up in jail and later was forced to join a militant Islamic group, family members said.
"I'm terrified because I want my father back," said Tariq, 19.
Mohammad Shafi Manhas, 45, last saw his brother then. He sent dried coconuts on a rope across the river, and his brother sent back oranges. It was the first time the two had ever seen each other.
"I asked him how many children he had, and he said five," Manhas said. "He asked how many children I had. I said I had a boy, who was in school, and he was doing well."
These meetings lasted only a few days before both governments stopped them, although bulldozers started clearing the way for a new meeting place, a bridge and a park, on the morning of the earthquake.
Manhas last heard about his brother three days before the earthquake. The letter said his brother was sick.
Then the earthquake struck, and his brother's village, a few miles down the river, was destroyed.
"I know his house is broken, but we have no news from him," Manhas said.
When the quake hit, Manhas and his wife ran out of their house in Teetwal, which collapsed, flattening even the pots and pans. Their only son, about 18, was out gathering firewood. He was buried in a landslide.
That day and the next, Manhas and several villagers walked up and down the piles of rocks, shouting his son's name: "Hafiz," "Hafiz."
Finally, they heard a groan and dug into the rubble, pulling out rock after rock. They found Hafiz, breathing and talking. They grabbed a stretcher from an army soldier who helped carry the boy up to the nearest clear road.
They walked past landslides, past where the new blacktop road had been wiped off the mountainside, past the three crushed vehicles, past the home where eight bodies still lay in the rubble, past a half-dozen villages where no one had blankets or tents. They walked for two hours. Hafiz complained he was cold. They couldn't get help for him in time, and he died. | <urn:uuid:ffbba4a6-28ec-4ecc-b398-d635fba251e2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-10-12/news/0510120127_1_pakistan-controlled-kashmir-himalayan-territory-muzaffarabad | 2013-05-20T02:32:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987269 | 1,353 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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JACKSON, Mississippi -- With four executions so far and two scheduled this month, Mississippi is on pace to have more executions in 2012 than it has had in any year since the 1950s.
The last time Mississippi executed more than four inmates in any single year was in 1961, when five died in the gas chamber. There were eight executions in each of the years 1955 and 1956. In those days, inmates were put to death for crimes like armed robbery, rape or murder. Today, the only crime punishable by death in Mississippi is capital murder -- a murder that happens during the commission of another felony.
The increase in executions comes as fewer people are being sentenced to death across the country. Some experts say the upward trend in Mississippi isn't likely to last.
Don Cabana, a former Mississippi corrections commissioner and author of the book, "Death At Midnight: The Confessions of an Executioner," said the increase "was absolutely predictable" and has more to do with timing and the pace of appeals than anything else.
"You have a number of people who have been sitting on death row for a long time whose cases kind of simultaneously, or in close proximity, started exhausting their appeals," Cabana said.
Three of the men executed so far this year were convicted of crimes committed in 1995 and the other was convicted in the 1990 stabbing deaths of four children.
Jan Michael Brawner, who's scheduled for execution on Tuesday, was convicted in the 2001 killings of his 3-year-old daughter, his ex-wife and her parents in Tate County. Gary Carl Simmons Jr., scheduled to die by injection June 20, was convicted of shooting and dismembering a man in Pascagoula over a drug debt in 1996.
"Mississippi went for a long time with no executions, or hardly any executions. It's due to the slowness of the appellate process. But now these cases are coming to fruition," said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit group that collects and analyzes information on the death penalty.
Jim Craig, an attorney who has worked on appeals for death row inmates, believes there's more to it than that.
Craig said that seven out of 11 men executed in Mississippi since 2008 were represented on appeal by the Mississippi Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel when it was led by attorney Bob Ryan, who took over the office in 2002. Glenn S. Swartzfager took over the office in 2008.
In a 2006 affidavit obtained by The Associated Press, Ryan described a situation in which the office lacked manpower and funding and he sometimes relied on trial summaries when filing appeals in numerous cases. At one point, he was essentially "the sole counsel on 21 cases," he wrote in the affidavit.
Craig says he's convinced that some of those men would be alive, either still appealing their cases or having their death sentences reduced, if they had better representation. Craig said many appeals were filed based only on the court transcript, and the post-conviction office didn't bother to interview witnesses.
"This is more than just the usual things moving at the usual speed. This is a breakdown in the system of providing lawyers to poor people when the state is trying to execute them," he said.
The Mississippi Office of Capital Post-Conviction Counsel was created by the Legislature in 2000 to represent indigent death row inmates in appeals.
"A pace of one or two executions a year is about what Mississippi has averaged. The reason why we have had 11 since 2008, I think it has to do with the failures of the post-conviction office in those years," Craig said.
The number of executions in Mississippi has fluctuated from year to year. There were two executions last year, three in 2010, none in 2009 and two in 2008. There also have been long gaps in executions over the years because of litigation. There were lulls between 1964 and 1983 and again from 1989 to 2002.
So far this year, Mississippi is only one execution behind Texas. Texas, however, has more executions scheduled for the remainder of the year than Mississippi. Texas has executed some 460 more people than Mississippi since 1976, but Texas has a much larger population.
There are 52 inmates on death row in Mississippi, which ranks 15th among death penalty states. Two of the inmates on Mississippi's death row are women, though it has been decades since a woman was executed in Mississippi. California has the most death row inmates with around 723.
Richard Jordan, 66, who was first convicted in 1977, is the oldest person on Mississippi's death row and has been there the longest, according to the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Jordan has an appeal pending in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
Cabana said there was a time when Mississippi's condemned inmates sat on death row much longer than the national average, but over the last decade the amount of time spent on appeals has come down nationally and in Mississippi, Cabana said.
In 1997, then-Gov. Kirk Fordice told a newly formed criminal justice study group that the state lets prisoners linger on death row too long.
"Texas executed two in one day again the other day. Arkansas has done the same thing," Fordice said. "Both of those states are continually working down their inventory on death row, and ours continues to grow." | <urn:uuid:b9b1860a-b989-49f5-94ed-e2a9571eaa8c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2012/06/mississippi_on_pace_to_have_mo.html | 2013-05-20T02:06:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982675 | 1,104 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Week ahead: Paul Collins pops off at Comet; Rick Ross's freebie; Best Coast on "Fallon"
If you go to one concert this week, make it: Power pop mainstay Paul Collins, he of the tied for my 9th favorite show of 2010, when he returns to Comet Ping Pong on Friday.
If you buy one album tomorrow, make it: "Ashes to Ashes," the new, free mixtape from Rick Ross that made its way onto the Internet on Christmas Eve. Download it here.
And if you watch one performance on TV, make it: Stoner girl Best Coast when she takes the stage on "Jimmy Fallon" tonight.
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My First Show: Steve Visneau Saw Plenty of Folk and Bluegrass Festivals, But His First Show With A Ticket Stub Came When He Saw KISS.
And he's done plenty: Visneau has played with a number of acts over the years, including The Queers, Slowride, Saboteur, J. Charles & The Trainrobbers, and The Ramonahs.
A few days after playing with The Ramonahs at La Grange, Visneau was kind enough to share some of his first show memories. Once again, we have a musician who wanted the best -- and got it -- for his first show experience.
Plus, he shares with us a little about how Loverboy turned him loose. Read on after the jump.
Do you remember the first show you ever saw? Did your parents take you?
It was KISS on the Alive! tour, on October 2, 1975, at the War Memorial Arena in Syracuse. I was eight years old. That was my official first concert. My mom took me -- she's rad that way. I had been to countless bluegrass festivals as I grew up in upstate New York, so we were always in some field, on a farm, in a tent. Most weekends, it was listening to some great folk and bluegrass acts. But KISS was the first with a ticket stub.
What was the first show you saw with your own money?
It was Loverboy at Reunion Arena. I drove to it. I should not have driven home, if ya get what I'm saying.
What do you remember from the first show with the Ramonahs?
Lipstick. The Ritz. Spandex. Hair spray. Backstage. Addicted.
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Holiday Ornament Workshop
This a low time-commitment, "make it and take it" activity, involving some very basic metalsmithing. Students will have the opportunity to make at least 2 customized ornaments and learn sawing, stamping, dapping, and a simple capture setting toincorporate a stone. Ornaments can be personalized with the year, a name or phrase, or with any design the student desires. No experience necessary! Materials included.
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From Salon -- September 2, 2012:
Paul Ryan’s Marathon Lie
He's used to the media letting him get away with outlandish claims. But this time he went too far.
BY JOAN WALSH
At first I thought the flap over Paul Ryan claiming he ran a marathon in under three hours was silly. (No, I’m not a runner.) Before I read his remarks to the worshipful Hugh Hewitt, it seemed possible that he’d either mis-remembered or mis-spoken. Anyway, Ryan is telling so many destructive political lies on the campaign trail, I thought, why does it matter if he exaggerates his running prowess?
Then I read the interview. He neither mis-spoke nor mis-remembered; he boasted about the feat with specificity and swagger.
Asked if he still ran marathons (plural), Ryan answered “Yeah, but I can’t do it anymore, because my back is just not that great.” When fanboy Hewitt interjected, “I’ve just gotta ask, what’s your personal best?” Ryan fatefully answered “Under three, high twos. I had a two hour and fifty-something.” The adoring Hewitt exclaimed “Holy smokes!” To which Ryan humbly answered, “I was fast when I was younger, yeah.”
Of course the world now knows that Ryan ran exactly one marathon, and he completed it in just over four hours, not under three. Runners World got the scoop, because marathoners know that Ryan’s claim, if true, was extraordinary. Ryan admitted he got his time wrong in a statement to Runners World, noting “The race was more than 20 years ago.”
So why would Ryan lie? He’s incredibly fit. No one doubts that he does a grueling P90X workout every day. A Google search for “paul ryan shirtless” yields almost 2.2 million results. Why would he feel he had to embellish his remarkable athletic achievements?
Because he thought he could.
Ryan’s media coverage, until now, has been worshipful, parroting his claims and never checking his facts. He’s been called “serious” by Beltway pundits too many times to count, for proposing a budget that slashes programs for poor people, gives the ultra-wealthy more tax cuts and doesn’t balance the budget until 2040. He’s considered a fiscal hawk even though he voted for the Bush tax cuts, a new Medicare entitlement and budgets that squandered the Clinton surplus and ran up a huge deficit under a Republican president.
Ryan was lauded for adding a common touch to Mitt Romney’s ticket, although he grew up well-to-do in Janesville, Wisc. and is now worth at least several million dollars. He parrots the GOP’s “We built that!” nonsense, in which rich people declare they had no government help amassing their fortunes, even though his family got rich in the construction business thanks in part to government highway contracts.
So why would Ryan expect anyone would fact-check his casual marathon lie?
But Runners World did. And now, on top of his convention-speech lies, Ryan’s marathon claim is sealing his reputation as a prevaricator. There’s a character issue here: What kind of person casually lies about an achievement like that, with a swagger? (“I was fast when I was younger, yeah.”) For someone who purports to valorize hard work and individual achievement, such a claim is particularly corrupt.
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I've cooked my first polenta. it was too dampish, without shape, but also not easily sectile: it couldnt be easily cut. What should I do better next time?
I want to cook a soft polenta. I would like the consistency to be like pudding - just firm enough to hold a shape (it doesn't flow out of the spoon if you take a heaped spoonful), but not firm enough ...
In every polenta recipe I have ever seen, the authors insist that the polenta has to be stirred over low heat for half an hour or so before it is thoroughly cooked. When I worked in an Italian ...
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Fans of few NBA teams would be as adversely affected by a lockout in 2011-12 as Oklahoma City’s. Lakers fans would miss out on what is likely (or hopefully, in the minds of his rivals) one of the dwindling years of Kobe Bryant’s dominance. The crowded Heat bandwagon, along with longer-serving Miami fans, will be deprived of what could secretly be one of the only seasons when Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and Chris Bosh are in sync all year and at the peak of their powers — Wade turns 30 next season after all.
Thunder fans’ disappointment would rate very close. Not only would Oklahoma City miss out on a year of a young Kevin Durant’s brilliance, but this and next season will both be crucial in determining the future of the franchise. To be cold an analytical, missing out on 2011-12 would be one less year of data to decide who to pay and who to let go and one less year to develop young players. Durant is good enough on his own to keep the Thunder out of the lottery and out of lottery-like rookie talents, so the value of every ounce of data, empirical and otherwise, goes up when deciding how to build a team. But from a passion perspective, the Thunder’s meteoric rise toward the top of the Oklahoma City area’s consciousness could seemingly only be stopped by the absence of the franchise altogether or a disappointing season. Somehow, the all-too-real threat of a lockout makes the former more possible, at least for a year, than the latter.
The Boston Globe recently interviewed a couple of guys who are smart enough to speak with authority about the NBA’s collective-bargaining agreement negotiations without actually being privy to them. Both of them echoed what has become an increasingly visible narrative: As a collective group, NBA owners are not going broke, but it would hardly be smart to claim otherwise now, and they would likely squeeze a bigger percentage of the pie by forcing players into a lockout. In case you were wondering who has the most leverage, I don’t think I’d go with the group that apparently has a sizable contingent in need of budgeting advice to be able to pay bills for one year right after a season of earning millions of dollars.
I fully acknowledge that, as a thousandaire as opposed to a millionaire, I can’t truly understand the value of, say, $8 million. I can’t understand what the difference is to a billionaire or almost-billionaire owner between profiting $40 million or $32 million, or profiting $4 million and losing $4 million when there’s plenty more where that came from. I don’t know what it’s like to lose or profit that amount. As a normal person, I just see those numbers and say, “Well, $32 million and $40 million are both a lot of money. Should you really be upset if you’re ‘only’ making $32 million?” But here’s what scares me. Those aforementioned smart guys, sports economists from the University of Michigan and Stanford University, point out what should probably be obvious. As Michigan’s Rodney Fort told the Globe, ” … everybody likes more money than less.”
But I argue that the owners could likely be picking up a rock only to drop it on their own feet. The pie they’re fighting for a bigger piece of could be smaller because of a lockout and a long absence by the NBA in the sports world. The Great Recession, or whatever you want to call it, has affirmed some truths that had been avoided for years in all parts of the economy, and brought up issues that matter specifically to sports. There is no commodity that can support a continuous, rapid rise in value. Player contracts and team values and ticket prices can sustain steady growth, but not long periods of spectacular growth. It’s no different from the housing market. And, with Americans paying down debt, looking for work and trimming fat from budgets, choices have to be made. Discretionary purchases, a category into which almost all sports spending by ordinary Americans must be included, have been and will continue to be slashed. People are going to be choosier in how they spend their sports dollars.
And they might choose football. It’s already number one.
If you’re looking for an argument here that basketball is better or more worthy of your sports dollar than football, that won’t happen here. It’s not worth the time, because there’s no reason both sports can’t be successful, and no reason why you can’t be a diehard fan of teams in both sports or of both sports in general. But the NFL and NBA are both spinning toward possible lockouts at the same time. Can you imagine a November 2011 that is bereft of any major traditional sport other than hockey and college football?
In Oklahoma, many people would imagine it and then shrug. College football is still number one here, and is likely to be for some time and perhaps forever. If the NBA is absent from Oklahoma City next fall, a lot of people will miss it. And local support, especially for a small-market franchise in a league with comparatively limited revenue sharing, is huge. People have to care enough to watch TV, listen to the radio, buy tickets, concessions and gear, and local corporations have to want to spend money to reap the benefits of association in order for the bottom line to work out. But despite the team continuing to add to the breadth and depth of its fans here, a lot more people won’t miss the Thunder if they take a season off. None of them are reading this blog, but there are still plenty of people out there who are only minimally aware of the Thunder’s presence and goings on in Oklahoma City.
The proof is in the eyeballs. Right now, the best the Thunder can do in TV is only as good as OU or OSU football does on an average Saturday. The Oklahoman reported the Thunder’s Game 6 playoffs matchup against the Lakers earned a total 21.4 rating locally across two networks, breaking the market record for a Thunder game. That game even set a national ESPN record at the time for first-round NBA playoffs broadcast. But by comparison, this year’s OU-Air Force football game pulled a 20.1 rating, and a Thursday night OSU-Texas A&M game got a 21.3. The OU-Texas game got a 39.9. It’s just not close.
The Thunder can get to that stratosphere locally if Durant and company make deep playoff runs. But it’s not far-fetched at all to think a one-season absence could kill most of the momentum the Thunder seems to have in the community. For an anecdotal analysis of the buzz in the area, compare the scrimmage at a local high school gym before this season and the one before last season. It grew from a half-filled practice to turning people away at the door in droves in one year. Another good season this year and the rise in stature would be poised to truly take off. An abrupt one-year hiatus and people are back to hollering at Landry Jones while the only NBA news they see is millionaire lawyers doing battle on behalf of a bunch of rich NBA players and richer NBA owners. Meteoric rise suspended. Maybe over, and definitely stunted.
That could — I say would — put the Thunder in a different financial position. Perhaps money-losing, perhaps not, but certainly different. The same could be said, for similar or different reasons franchise-by-franchise, for the rest of the NBA. The lockout isn’t going to make any fans or sponsors happy, and it could come at a time when families across the country are making more and harder choices about how to spend their money. If you take the NBA off the table, you make the choice for them. Giving the option back a year later probably won’t earn the sparkling season ticket renewal rates currently enjoyed by the Thunder and other teams. It doesn’t take an advanced degree in finance or economics to realize what common sense tells you: The risk, if not the certainty, of reduced gross income is real.
Would the different financial position in Oklahoma City mean the difference between being able to extend someone like Russell Westbrook, James Harden and/or Serge Ibaka or letting some or all of them walk? Without keeping guys like that, would the Thunder be able to turn lower draft picks, resourcefulness and smarts into the 10-year contender it seems like could be built around Durant if they could? Would Durant sign another extension if the Thunder’s rise tapers off and there’s no sign of more to come? Scary thoughts, with or without a lockout, but the risks involved in a lockout make them worse. Similarly scary, and myriad, thoughts surely crop up around the league when pondering a lockout’s specific effects on a given market. The NBA is filled with promising players, teams and storylines whose progress would be rudely, and perhaps irreparably, interrupted.
I don’t claim to know more than what you can read about any NBA owner or his financial situation, Clay Bennett included. And I wouldn’t mean to suggest that someone lose their own shirt on a business investment for the sake of fans. But it’s worth noting most NBA teams are either already playing in or longing for arenas funded entirely or largely by public funds. Ask Kansas City how much money it’s making on a great arena without a headline sports tenant, or at least how much money it’s not making without one. It’s not only a team’s owner’s investment where a return is at stake. People who voted against taxpayer-funded arenas have their own money in play whether they like it or not. To ignore that is deceitful.
The NBA’s worst-case scenario is the NFL figuring out its labor issues without a work stoppage that affects the season, but the NBA sinking into a lockout. It could be argued the NBA’s best-case scenario, as a business, is the opposite. If one league figures it out, it will be hailed as the smart league that doesn’t take the golden goose, or fans, for granted. The other one will be painted as the league of greedy pinheads who robbed the public, literally and figuratively. Perhaps they’ll both wise up, they’ll both get lip service for figuring things out and we’ll forget about it until the next time.
Decision time is nearing for the NBA, regardless of what the NFL does. The owners have the most control, so the buck, as far as the labor negotiations go, stops there. They have the choice to squeeze out all they can with or without the lockout. We’re all watching and hoping they don’t screw it up for the rest of us. | <urn:uuid:7b23efc8-8c54-48cb-8bde-7f43edddc0f9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://dailythunder.com/2010/10/dont-forget-the-lockout-would-the-nba-really-do-it/ | 2013-05-20T02:14:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698207393/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095647-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960873 | 2,302 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
It looks like I'll be heading to training camp this weekend to check out the 2010 Dallas Cowboys. Although it will be extremely early in the evaluation process I have several things I will be looking at while I'm there.
1. How does Roy Williams look? Last training camp/preseason he seemed to be developing a nice rapport with Tony Romo but then he injured his shoulder late in camp and they never really clicked after that. With Dez Bryant waiting to take his job I expect to see a determined Roy Williams.
2. Does Alan Ball look ready to start? It is one thing to work with the first team in OTA's when everything goes at three quarter speed. I want to see how he performs in the team portion of practice when things start to move a little faster. We won't really know if Alan Ball can excel at safety until the real games start but we will know early on if he is in over his head.
3. Is Sean Lee as good as advertised? He seems to have everything it takes to be a key player on the defense for the next decade. I want to see if he looks as good against NFL talent as he did in college.
4. Is Dez Bryant practicing? I am going to camp extremely early so there is a good chance that Dez won't be under contract. I hope he is because I want to get a first hand view of the amazing natural ability he possesses.
5. Is there any depth at cornerback after the top 3? There are a lot of candidates vying for the #4 slot but none of them have proven anything at the NFL level. It will be an interesting battle. Hopefully the Cowboys find a player on the roster who can get it done so they don't have to overpay for an aging free agent veteran. The one-on-one drills between the cornerbacks and wide receivers usually expose a cornerback who doesn't have the ability to play at the NFL level.
6. Is Doug Free going to be able to protect Tony Romo? The best tool that Doug Free has to develop his game is Demarcus Ware. Free gets to practice against one of the best pass rushers in the league every day. Pass blocking on game day should seem easy for him after he faces Ware for the next month and a half.
7. Can Beuhler handle the kicking job? Field goal kicking is still a major concern. Beuhler never looked to good during camp or pre-game warm-ups last season on field goals. Hopefully he will show improvement in camp but we won't know how good he is until the pressure is on in the regular season.
8. Has Martellus Bennett matured? Last year while I was at training camp I witnessed Martellus at his worst. While the rest of his teammates warmed up for practice he was dancing around a joking with the crowd. Then he didn't know where to line up on offense half the time just like the regular season. Hopefully we'll see a guy who takes his job more seriously this year.
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A pitfall of being a gardener is overconfidence. After triumphing over soil, weather, and a few insects, there’s a swagger to your walk; you find yourself smugly thinking you could master any plant your heart desires. When you reach that point, there’s always one that calls your bluff.
In my case, it’s hops, the essential element in beer. A friend convinced me to put in two plants with a simple plan: grow hops, harvest them, and trade them to brewers for beer.
The first season was an easy, no-brainer, I thought, since the vines with hand-shaped leaves stayed small and well behaved. In the winter they died back, and I snipped off the spent vine and tucked in the roots for winter.
The second year, the hops settled in, crawling up the fence and spilling over the side. “Must be why they call them Cascades,” I thought, “they’re cascading all over the neighbor’s yard.” Pulling them back, I harvested the cones and offered them to home brewers.
Now in their third season, they’re showing their true nature: alarming. Not content with climbing the fence, my hops grabbed the neighbor’s apple tree, vining up to cover the branches in an aromatic blanket. Staring up at the harvest dangling 20 feet above my head, all I could think was “Houston, we have a problem.”
“They’re really vigorous; they’ll climb over anything. They’ll take over bushes, ornamental plants,” says Ali Hamm, Hops Specialist with Summit Plant Laboratories, Inc., in Fort Collins (plantlabs.com/). “There are reports of them getting 50-feet tall, but in Colorado they’ll only get about 25 feet.”
Hamm spent four years on what many college students might consider a dream project: researching the best types of hops for our area at Colorado State University. The high yielding plant shows promise for Colorado growers; warm days, cool nights, low humidity and few pests keep problems away. Once established, hops are also drought tolerant.
The market for local hops looks strong. “People in Colorado will always be drinking beer, and there will always be hops in it,” says Hamm, “I think it’s a great crop to be growing here, but I’m biased about it.” She estimates the industry is two to five years from being established, mainly due to large up front costs of trellising and post harvest equipment.
Brewers are watching the fledgling industry closely, which currently has 75 acres in production. “We used to get wet hops from Yakima Valley (Washington), but we want to use local hops for our beer,” says Ro Guenzel, Head Brewer for Left Hand Brewing Company in Longmont (lefthandbrewing.com/). “They’re better, fresher, and we can visit the fields to select the rows that we want.”
Wet hops, unprocessed cones used within 12 hours of harvest, are expensive to ship by overnight express for brewing Left Hand’s Warrior beer. Now Guenzel brings in his hops from Sunrise Farm in Paonia, which picks and packs the hops onto small airplanes for a quick trip over the mountains to Longmont.
“We can only make a wet hop beer once per year, when hops are picked. Since they’re not dried, there’s no loss of volatile oils. They provide a different character to the beer, it’s a little greener, brighter flavor,” he said. Balancing malty sweetness with a touch of bitterness is not all hops do; each type brings its own flavor to the brew. “Hops can be citrusy, piney, earthy – they’re all unique.”
Guenzel was happy to take the two bushels of hops harvested from my plants to add to the Warrior brew. “Cascades are the most widely used, they’re the quintessential hop.” But Hamm also recommends Chinook, Crystal, or Nugget for people who want a tried and true plant. Then get to know your neighbor, taking them beer in exchange for their patience with your vine.
- Home-grown hops to flavour Quebec microbrew (cbc.ca)
- The Great Yakima Hop Harvest (chicagonow.com)
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Candidate takes active role in discovering city issues
By DAWNE LEIKER
Shaun Musil has been on a path of discovery as he campaigns for a seat on the Hays City Commission.
At 40, Musil said he has seen many residents his age and younger "turned off" by politics, but he would like to see that change.
"We should care what happens in Hays," he said in an interview earlier this month. "That's why I've been going to the (city commission) meetings.
"You get a different grasp."
Musil will go up against four other candidates for three commission seats in the April 2 election: Todd Gabel and Dominic Pianalto and incumbents Ron Mellick and Eber Phelps.
From doughnut shop talk to conversations at his kids' ballgames, Musil has been hearing residents' concerns that run a broad spectrum including a proposed convention center, taxes and wind energy.
Water, he said, also is a topic that has come up repeatedly.
He said he is encouraged about the potential of new city water conservation programs.
"I would love to be part of helping spread that word (conservation)," he said. "I think it's important people my age want to live here and raise a family; they need to understand to conserve."
In addition to conservation efforts, Musil said he is proud of what Hays has accomplished through its recycling program.
The city has made a habit of keeping some contingency funds, and Musil said it is important to keep "rainy day" reserves, but if funds are available, infrastructure improvements should be a priority.
Although the city has seen increases in sales tax collections the past few years, Musil said he thinks it's important to acknowledge not all those collections come from Hays residents.
"One thing I want to make sure is, we rely on our draw factor, but I think we need to be careful we don't alienate people from Norton, Phillipsburg, Plainville," he said. "Those people are a big part of that."
Musil has made it a point to gain insight through visits with city officials and hopes to spend time with department heads and staff members.
"From what I've heard, (city manager) Toby (Dougherty) is doing a great job, but you need to talk to the people down below, the people who are physically doing the work, and ask, 'Are you being taken care of?' " he said.
A willingness to "listen to anyone," is part of what Musil said sets him apart as a candidate for city commission.
"I hope that people vote for me and look at it as someone with a new, different perspective," he said. "But I also very much want to listen to people who have lived here all their lives.
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[HMS News] 6-2-06
bcarozza at hopkintonschools.org
Fri Jun 2 16:14:30 EDT 2006
HMS NEWS * 6-2-06
PARENTS OF THIRD GRADERS:
"Bridges", the event for parents to visit Maple Street School, is
coming up next Tuesday morning, June 6, beginning at 8:30 AM. Look
for the full flyer in today's hard copy of the Parent Flash.
Congrats to the new slate of PTA Officers, elected last night at our
FUN FAIR THANKS
The PTA would like to thank all of the businesses,
teachers, principals, staff, parents and students for
their generous donations to Fun Fair. It was a very
successful day and we would like to thank everyone who
helped make it such a great event. We can't name
everyone who helped out - there were so many of you -
but we would like to thank the following individuals
who went above and beyond the call of duty:
Vickie Baronas, Fun Fair Co-chair
Lauren Vallari, Donations Coordinator
Heather Mitchell, Plant Coordinator
Cindy Glass, Volunteer Co-coordinator
Katie Winslow, Volunteer Co-Coordinator
Mary Ann McNicholas, Food Co-coordinator
Colleen Symonds, Food Co-coordinator
Hopkinton High School National Honor Society Students
Hopkinton Girls J.V. and Varsity Lacrosse Teams
Skate Murdough, Set-up and Clean-up
Eileen & Mike Reinacher and Alex & Trish Underwood,
who helped coordinate the bouncy house and obstacle
course set-up, take down and delivery.
THANK YOU TO THE FOLLOWING BUSINESSES FOR THEIR GENEROSITY AND SUPPORT:
BEECH HILL FARMBELLA BLASER’S FIRESIDE TAVERN
BREAD AND CHOCOLATE
THE CALICO HEN
THE CHANDLER SHOP
CHUCK ROSE LOGGING
COBBLESTONE DESIGN COMPANY
CONTOOCOOK NEEDLEWORK GALLERY
COUNTRY VILLAGE CAFE
CONTOOCOOK COVERED BRIDGE RESTAURANT
THE CRANBERRY BARN
CURVES OF HOPKINTON
DANIEL’S RESTAURANT & PUB
DIMITRI’S PIZZA & RESTAURANT
FRENCH FARM GREENHOUSES
GOLDEN PINEAPPLE GIFT SHOP
HOPKINTON BOOSTER CLUB
JULIEANNE’S FLORAL SHOPPE
MAIN STREET BOOKENDS
MARKLIN CANDLE DESIGN
MARY KAY, CAROL CLEARY, CONSULTANT
MEGAN’S PANTRY - BRENDA LEWIS,
NEW HAMPSHIRE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY
PM6 WOODWORKING – PETER BENSON
RED STAR CHINESE RESTAURANT
RUSTY’S GENERAL STORE
DICK AND JAYNE SCHOCH
VILLARI SELF DEFENSE CENTER
COFFEE WITH CAROZZA
Don’t forget the last Coffee with Carozza Friday, June 9, 8 AM in
the Music Room (note the location change.)
Sign-up for “Treasure Reading” at the Library this Summer
Children in kindergarten through Grade 5 will be encouraged
to discover the treasure of a good story this summer during the
Hopkinton Town Library’s six-week program entitled Treasure Reading.
The program begins on June 21 and ends with an ice cream party on
July 27. Children of all ages (and young adults, too) are
encouraged to read and record the titles and number of books they
read at our Book Sharing Table in the Mildred Reid Reading Nook of
the library. A treasure chest of “little surprises” awaits those
who share their books with us!
In addition to the reading segment of the program, a number of
exciting presentations have been scheduled. Mary Doan of Nature
Project will have live turtles with her on June 27 and will share
“Stories of the Earth” through music, movement, and visual arts.
Martha Dana will return with her hand-made puppets on June 29 for
another zany, enthralling routine. Partners in Rhyme on July 6 will
present “A Pirate’s Life for Me,” and on July 11, Steve Blunt will
return with his guitar ready to sing his own songs, including Hang on
On July 13, Carolyn Parrott, Director of Songweavers, will lead
us in another lively performance that encourages participation, and
Rob Mattes, Hopkinton’s Recreation Director, will be back by popular
demand to lead all the “mateys” on an out-of-doors hunt for treasure
on July 18.
On July 20, Almodarr’s Grand Illusion will present A Voyage
with Capt. Cutlass. Joell Gaskill, will be here on July 25 to conduct
a craft workshop—get your painting smocks on!
At the final meeting on July 27, Betsy Spencer will return to
help children create a treasure together with their parents and
caregivers—an “ice cream story” with a twist! Then all can enjoy the
Make-Your-Own Sundae Buffet and the “Treasure Reading” award ceremony.
Sign-up for the summer reading program will be held at the library
from June 9th through 16th. In addition, the Book Sharing with Nancy
Raymond will start June 21. Book Sharing times will be Tuesdays
10:00 to 1:00, Wednesdays 10:00 to 1:00 & 3:00 to 8:00, Thursdays
10:00 to 1:00 and 3:00 to 8:00, Fridays 10:00 to 1:00, and Saturdays
10:00 to 1:00.
Call the Library at 746-3663 for more information
'TWEEN SCHOOL'N HOME
CHILD CARE PROGRAM
at Harold Martin School
Week of June 5 thru June 9th
Monday: Soccer Game
Tuesday: National YoYo Day
Wednesday: Pitching Power Revisited
Thursday: Snap Crackle and Pop Mellow Magic
Friday: Happy Birthday Donald Duck! What Makes You Quack??
A special thank you to Officer "Bubba" Arsenault for his wonderful
bicycle safety presentation to the children
on May 30th! We all learned a lot!
We are currently accepting registrations for the 2006-2007 school
year and hope to see
many of your children there. For information contact Linda Ottery at
529-2186 or email at
tsnh at comcast.net.
FROM THE PRINCIPAL
Are you making summer plans for your children? In addition to the
wonderful vacations and summer camps that families partake in, I
would suggest summer reading as a great goal for all.
Richard Allington, President of the International Reading Association
and professor of education at the University of Tennessee lists three
keys to summer reading: access, choice and collaboration.
Be sure that there are enough solid reading materials in the home,
such as magazines, books, newspapers, notices, and other print
material. It should be easy enough to read so that it is enjoyable. A
trick you can use to judge readability is to ask your child to read a
page aloud. Every time he stumbles or skips a word, have him curl up
a finger. If all the fingers on one hand are curled up by the end of
the page, the piece is probably too hard for this summer. If the
child wants to read it though, turn this into a shared reading. Read
aloud together, in chorus, or take turns by pages, saying any words
the child skips or pauses on.
This is a very important area. Children need to have a bevy of
choices of literature to read. And, it's fine to read a book again!
Reading is usually more fun together. A great idea is to read the
same book that your child is reading so that you can share it
together. Of course, it's always wonderful to join the summer reading
program at our own Hopkinton library.
I have a stack of professional books that I can't wait to delve into
this summer. Reading truly soothes the soul and challenges the mind.
Bill Carozza | Principal
Harold Martin School
271 Main St.
Hopkinton, NH 03229
p. 603 .746 .3473
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All future patch notes (as well as dates, potentially) are subject to change.
This patch is not the fabled IPY 2.5.
- The Pinnacle now has no join requirements
- A crash bug was fixed.
- Several Treasury Region bugs were fixed.
Monsters & Dungeons
- Skeletal Mages now appear differently.
- Skeletal Dragons no longer produce barbed hides.
- White Wyrms added to the game.
- Shadow Wyrms now have increased treasure.
- White and Shadow Wyrms have had their breath effects altered.
- Wrong Dungeon has been revamped.
- “Evil” regions have been added wherein all players are flagged criminal and no murder counts are applied for killing players. These areas are now: Yew Orc Fort, Destard Swamp, Yew Crypts in addition to Buccaneer’s Den.
Weapons & Magic
- The Quarterstaff now does slightly less high end damage.
- The War Hammer now does slightly more high end damage.
- The Bardiche now provides an even more reliable damage range, with slightly less high end damage.
- The Harm spell now interrupts at 100% success rate every 5 seconds.
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I LOVE THIS. As a tourist, I would appreciate it as well.
that's so much fun!;)
Please, oh please, add these to Chicago.
hahaha this is awesome!!!!
Perfect!!! :) They need one for Chicago too...
yesss! long overdue! it's like having an open speeding lane, finally.
We could use that in LA too.But God bless 'em...Cali clearly needs the $...
Hahaahhah...so funny:)Have a fantastic weekend darling? Any plans?Kisses
haha - I work in Times Sq and I can attest to the fact that this is absolutely necessary!!http://ladulcivida.blogspot.com/
Funny! I would totally use the "tourist" lane when I visit NY. I always feel so bad being in the native's way as I am trying to bumble around this fantastic city:)
This takes the HOV lane concept to whole new level.
Fun, really great for NYC! Life in the Fast Lane!KarenaArt by Karena
They need to add these to a lot of major metro cities, seriously.
Is this for real? Or is it just art?PS - Love your blog, congratulations for the lovely toby. I'm 3,5 months pregnant of my first child and I couldn't be happier...
That is beyond awesome!I wonder how many tourists try out the NY side just for kicks?!
I lived in Mission Beach, San Diego for four years and we really could have used this on the boardwalk!one time while complaining about the tourists someone told me "complaining about tourists in mission beach is like complaining about the elephants at the circus"just a part of life, I guess!
Classic! I will definitely be in the tourist lane! :)Marcie
Surely a state of mind as well as being? I think we need them everywhere!
Haha, this is great!
Amazing - enough said =)
bahaha! I can't tell you how many times I've been yelled at by New Yorkers when I've been visiting the City. These lanes are an inspired idea. :)
I wish I could have seen them in action! Fabulous!
so necessary. this is fabulous. have a wonderful weekend with your mister and your little one!
I wish this was true. The traffic for New Yorkers would be so much better.
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clever. this actually came up in one of my advertising brain storming meetings this week. love the idea. i just need to think of that same thing on a grander scale.workyourcloset.com
sorry but I didn't understand.. I've never been in NY, but.. can you explain?
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I just burst out laughing! Hilarious!xxMKDelightful Bitefuls
Improv Everywhere is totally genious. I love them. when i saw this on color me katie i literally laughed out loud.
I wish Chicago would get some of these as well...
Hahaha love it!
That is sooo funny! hope it's working:)how is the baby and the mama
I agree with Noodles and Waffles - Chicago needs these too. For the sidewalks downtown, oh how the tourists get in my way!
I wish they had this in Europe. I got so confused with people driving and walking on the wrong side of the road.
words can't describe how amazing this is! haha! we definitely need a tourist lane in hawaii! so fun!
I honestly want these in Boston, where I'm tired of groups of tourists making me late for class...and in the cities I tour, where I'm tired of the locals pushing through me when I'm trying to find out where the hell I am. Such a great idea; too bad it's a joke.
Its real fun!Do you know who did this?http://colormekatie.blogspot.com/
That IS funny! WIsh I knew were this was?
hahaha, this is so great. i bet a lot of locals would actually appreciate something like this.
LOVE LOVE LOVE IT, so funny. so necessary :) hehe
Oh, that really made me smile! We could also do with:1. Labels indicating which direction you're meant to walk (surely it's obvious after crashing into about the 3rd person...)2. Labels on escalators...
funny, but needed!!!! haha
We could use those in my tiny town too!:)
Brilliant! This should be mandatory sidewalk signage in NY and London!Miss B xxhttp://agirlastyle.wordpress.com/
oh we need that for san francisco!
Love it! Only in New York!
love it. i need this in milan.
I want to see one that says Me/Everyone Else.
A northerner would have this. its rude.
That is hilarious!
Saw this on Improv Everywhere. So creative
That's how I feel about driving down 29 in Napa Valley!
I just LOVE your blog - I needed a good laugh this morning!
i saw this on colormekatie's blog. so clever and cute!
hmmm, where were this when I visited New York City for the first time, I almost got run over by the New yorkers.LOL
HA!! that's too cute :)
the video of that baby hearing is incredible .what a blessing for those parents.
Oh my gosh! I love this! How many times I have walked behind a slowwww non-New Yorker trying to get to work!
love love love love!
hahahaha yea... that would be really nice in NY b/c i'd be in the slow tourist lane!! i am absolutely terrified of driving in NY b/c everyone is sooo aggresive... but i'm sure NYers are sick of slow tourists too haha!! this would really alleviate all concerns!
Haha... what a fun idea!xoxo Sandrahttp://glamirrorous.com
Only in America, only in America!!!! Hilarious.
funny though, you guys are probably tourist somewhere else, plus part of the magic of traveling is pretending you are an insider, melting with the city and so on, hate this kind of apartheid to be honest! i live in madrid city center and i know its annoying coping with tourist but none of the big cities would be the same without us!
haha what an awesome shot!
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Karen Laub-Novak: Writings
Imaginative vision takes many forms. In the visual arts, two activities alternate: entering into the work and distancing oneself from it. One activity is unconscious, intuitive, nonverbal, and non-conceptual. The other activity is an exercise in judgment. Each activity depends upon the other. Intuition, emotion, and self interest are guided by reflection and criticism. The rhythm of this stride has its own laws.
Imagination is vulnerable to wide swings — fantasy and daydream, idealism and practicality, passivity and action, depression and ecstasy. What differentiates the imagination of the artist from the dreamer is the willingness to set limits, grab scattered moments and exercise both spontaneity and restraint. Art is effort. It is also playful, sometimes serious, sometimes humorous. Art often brings defeat and failure. It is seldom easy.
A rebirth of imaginative vision then can lead us down many paths, some destructive, some barren, and some fruitful. The path of imagination is dangerous because the two sides of the soul, call them anima and animus, within the imagination are in conflict. Imagination is filled with struggle, terror, transcendence and tranquility, ecstasy and depression, creativity and destruction.
How we approach our own family life, our spiritual life, and our aesthetic life constitutes this struggle. How we perceive and guide this struggle depends on our interpretation of the rhythms between unconscious intuition and criticism in each of these fields. Setbacks in one affect the other, but in mysterious, ironic ways. Sometimes defeats in one bring successes in another.
The structure of the seminars in San Antonio involved photographic slides of paintings in process, slides of children and their work, dirty dishes, nature studies, more paintings, dirty laundry, out of focus kitchens, more paintings and even a shot of the interior of our refrigerator in which something is always rotting.
A picture of children and their work, dirty dishes, the family burial plot, or laundry is the equivalent of a note card leading to a reflection on silence, discipline, spontaneity, stages of mystical perception, or detachment. The development of our own unique perceptions grow out of these early experiences. The arts and creative sciences mine these early experiences. In family, art or spirituality we need to rediscover these imaginative strands, pleasant or unpleasant.
The process of painting does not begin with a goal or a vision but lets the unconscious form the vision. The vision grows out of the material, media and activity. The creative arts and sciences do not follow a linear path. Painting the painting is like nurturing the child. The painter learns to allow for change, bad beginnings, tedious days, distress and joy. The child is not created in our image, nor is the painting. A child’s abilities and temperament may be far different from our own. We do not create the child or the painting. They are often independent of our best efforts. They have an inner structure, life, demands, and abilities. They both “talk back.”
But paintings do not paint themselves. Likewise, no other institution — school, church, social agency, TV — can teach the child to be intelligent, honest, generous and moral as effectively and as efficiently as the family. However, nostalgia — as much as I enjoy “Little House on the Prairie”” — will not suffice. There is no perfect formula that will create an orderly home, children, career, and marriage; no formula for an artistic style and process sure to grant fame, fortune and the love of beautiful men.
The analogy between spiritual quest and artistic process is like a ladder. The early stages involve insight, preparation, discipline, and the dark night of the soul. But the analogy can be carried too far. Mystical understanding finally transcends imagination, while the artist is rooted in imagination and dares not abandon it. Zen mysticism stresses the religio-aesthetic path to transcendence through the arts and through the most ordinary of activities. The archers eyes are closed. The archer perfects the movements of the body with stillness in the soul, letting go the rational mind. The arrow shoots itself and pierces the target, hitting the mark. But only after the archer has mastered each tiny discipline of her art, her life, and her soul. Until then, she struggles.
There is fruitful emphasis in both Christian and Zen traditions on silence, concentration, heightened perception, and a pre Freudian understanding of the unconscious and of the dangers of self deceptions in the imagination of St. Theresa of Avila describes the culmination of mystical understanding as pain and tranquility at the same time.
The place of the viewer, in art as in life, is altered, depending on where one stands. As we move ourselves in the landscape, what seems like familiar changes in the color of the light, the shadows, the objects and the events around it seem changed. We need to make those moves to deepen our perception and to circle the experience rather than to see it always from the same spot. We need to be in the spirit and outside of it.
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Take an $n \times n$ matrix $A$, and suppose that $v$ is an eigenvector of $A$, with all entries of $v$ equal to a constant $k$. Naturally, $k \ne 0$. Let $\lambda$ be the eigenvalue of $A$ that has $v$ as an eigenvector. If $(b_1, b_2, \dots, b_n)$ is any row of $A$, then by the definition of eigenvalue and eigenvector, we have
$$kb_1+kb_2+\cdots +kb_n=\lambda k,$$
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English: Sweet Blue Flowers
Synonyms: Aoihana, Blue Flower
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jul 2, 2009 to Sep 10, 2009
22 min. per episode
PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
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Score: 7.421 (scored by 9607 users)
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SynopsisIn the original manga’s story, Fumi and Akira were close childhood friends until Fumi had to move away. Ten years after losing touch with each other, the two girls meet again as high school freshmen. The two struggle to reconnect after so much has changed, and both deal with the trials and tribulations of high school — sometimes independently and sometimes with each other’s help.
Related AnimeAdaptation: Aoi Hana
Characters & Voice Actors
If your requirements for enjoying an anime are fantastical brightly colored settings, perfectly formed and ideal bodies, and over the top comedy chop full of nosebleeds and sparkly heart shaped eyes; then Aoi Hana is not for you. If your only interest in yuri storylines is girl on girl macking and fan service; then Aoi Hana is not for you. Aoi Hana has none of these things. (Well besides the girl on girl macking)
What Aoi Hana attempts to portray is a thoughtful and serious story about a group of teenage girls as they learn about first love and themselves. The main focuses are the girls Fumi and Akira (affectionately called Aa-chan). Both were close friends when they were very young but in the years they had forgotten about each other since Fumi's family had moved away. The story begins with both girls starting as freshmen at new high schools, Fumi at Matsuoka High and Akira at the nearby and prestigious Fujigaya. The girls are fatefully reunited through a series of chance meetings and the new friends they make at school.
There isn’t anything flashy about this series, much like its lead Fumi, its soft and delicate. The story is much more diverse and real than your standard romance series. While the themes are mostly yuri, it also feels like a slice of life, a comedy, and a heterosexual romance. Aoi Hana is unique in that it is one of the few series I have seen that has dealt with sexuality in a serious manner. Usually yuri romance is set in an unrealistic world where everyone is completely gay without question and in which there are no social consequences. Here the cast struggles to deal with their crushes or unrequited loves for both male and female characters. Things never play out quite the way you might expect them too either. I also felt the story was very mature and classy. There isn’t any exploitive fan service or sexual content added for mere titillation. Though there is intimacy and mature themes everything is handled so tastefully that it really stays true to the themes of the anime.
The only thing that really keeps this series from getting a perfect score from me is the open ending. At this time the manga is still publishing so the only way to have a true ending is to go with an original one. J.C. Staff didn’t do that with this and chose to leave it open. This was probably the right call, even though it is a bit annoying as a viewer. What Aoi Hana really needs is a sequel and hopefully we might get that someday. Though it’s not a bad ending even if this does end up being all that’s made, but it still left me wishing for much more.
As a character, Fumi ultimately proved to be the most interesting and deep. She is a shy, weepy girl who will cry seemingly over everything and nothing. Fumi further stands out as being the only really completely gay character in the show. While many of the characters deal with relationship angst involving both sexes, Fumi is at least confident in her own identity. She is perhaps both the most cowardly yet also the bravest character, having the courage to come out of the closet to her best friend but yet not able to speak her true mind to even her lover. Yet she evolves over the story and while the essence of what makes her such a sweet and likeable character remains to the end, the inner strength she discovers by the end made her so much fun to watch.
Akira is the kind of character that is likeable from the start. She’s the kind of person every girl wants as a friend. In the story she is the anchor that keeps the rest of the cast together. She is in the middle of seemingly every plot line though she doesn’t really have a story of her own. Though she is technically just as much of a main character as Fumi is, I felt that she didn’t get the kind of development she deserved. We get many subtle and perhaps not that subtle hints on her love interests but sadly there is never any payoff.
Yasuko Sugimoto is exactly the kind of girl I hate in anime. She is the tomboyish, athletic, outwardly emotionless, and inexplicably popular character type. I have never understood why this types are so desired by girls in these kinds of shows. Someone like this certainly wouldn’t have been this popular in my high school. But a friend as told me this is not the case in an all girls environment. The simple fact of the matter is that I thoroughly detested her. Though I have to admit that despite me not liking her, she ended up being an interesting character and indispensable to Fumi's growth.
The last of the main cast would be Kyouko Ikumi. She becomes Akira's first friend upon her starting her life at Fujigaya High. While Ikumi is a sympathetic character in a lot of ways given the way she is often treated by Yasuko, she also has a lot of creepy stalker elements. Personality wise she’s a lot like Fumi in that she is very emotional and prone to tears. Though she also appears to be outwardly much stronger emotionally then Fumi, on the inside she really is a bit of a pathetic person.
The supporting cast is also strong. While the cast does seem to get a bit large by the end, the anime does a good job of picking out the most important things to show and leaving the fluff behind. Unusually for a yuri series there are a few male love interests. Though for the most part all of these men are not given much screen time, their impact is felt very strongly and their presence is extremely important to why certain characters are the way they are.
Most will probably look at Aoi Hana's artwork and think it is plain looking. But they would be missing the point I think. The art and animation is perfect for what this anime is trying to accomplish. The colors are soft and reserved and add to the feeling of realism this show has. There aren’t any impossibly short miniskirts or mountainous breasts and all the characters look and feel like regular people which only further adds to the sense of realism.
The music further adds to the atmosphere. Both the OP/EN songs are soft and pleasant and thoroughly enjoyable. The voice acting is stellar. The main cast is voiced almost entirely by new faces who I felt did a great job. There are many familiar veteran seiyuu almost the supporting cast which I thought was an interesting reversal.
For fans of yuri, Aoi Hana is a title that must not be missed. I think it’s a bold and original production in an industry full of the same tired old themes and sequels. Anyone else who is interested in a serious romance and coming of age story should definitely give this a try.
I said it before and I'll say it again: there are just few things on this planet that can be as fabulous tier as I am. Aoi Hana is one kind of anime that comes dangerously close. (NB: close. Nothing is my tier as yet).
This anime has the distinction of NOT being a disgusting fanservice yuri anime. It is pretty good drama and isn't about hot chicks snogging one another or worse, not snogging and just drinking tea all the time. Don't get me wrong, this is no "snore, huh?, wtf, I can't even spell 'soeur'-fest" like Maria-sama ga Miteru nor are the girls candy coloured whores like in Strawberry Panic.
No, Aoi Hana shows you pretty much how unfabulous it is to be a gay-girl teenager who is so deep in the closet that even the Boogieman is starting to feel claustrophobic.
So the story follows this plain chick Fumi whose big distinctions are her height and her ability to cry at the drop of the hat. Apparently everyone wants a piece of her (reasonably so, she's a nice gal), so she gets into all sorts of lesbian hijinks with her cousin and this older chick in school.
We follow the exploits of Fumi as she goes pimpin' across Kamakura. It really says something when she can just mosey on up to a new school and bag the hottest guy in school. Although the hottest guy is just a butch girl. Yasuko is kind of a more overt pimp, because she's basically got all the girls wanting to get some, especially this hot little number called Kyoko. Who is sadly being chased by this guy (a real guy, btw) who has no idea the girl he's engaged to wants to dine on fine rug gourmet rather than sausage.
Now, be warned of the trollin'--this is no Kannazuki no Miko or anything. One thing you loser fans will have a problem with is the lack of explicitness in this anime. Where are da boobs!? If she's scamming on other girls, why aren't we seeing her panties?? I thought this was going to be about fingersex? Oops, this anime has class, taste and dignity. So be warned, none of that in Aoi Hana.
What we got is a sweet and fabulous little story. The art only really misses getting a 10 because there wasn't enough pink or glitter or pink glitter in it. There were dudes in this but they were pretty much average looking like everyone else. Everyone looks pretty normal. Other than that, it's pretty down to earth and real. The sound is pretty good too, but as for Akira's voice, I wouldn't want to take that to bed, if you know what I mean. She sounds like a little kid, which I guess is the effect they wanted because Akira is pretty much like the most childish character in the show (though she's not immature). I don't even know what I mean. Who'd want to take Akira to bed? Nobody!
And that's another pretty cool aspect of this show. Akira, the second main character, isn't automatically paired off with chick-master Fumi like ALL THOSE OTHER YURI shows where the BFFs suddenly go gay for one another. That is surprisingly very cool of this anime.
For being real: 10 fabs out 10.
Lesbians: 9 fabs out of 10.
Lack of fairy dust: 1 unfab, but since this isn't that kind of show, I guess I can let it slide.
All in all, watch this show, since I have deemed it fabulous. read more
Really similar settings, characters. You couldn't tell Sumi apart from Fumi even if your life was on the line (:
Both sweet shoujo-ai, slice of life animes.
Though sasameki koto is a bit better imo (:
They are both yuri series that are a bit on the realistic side
both Shoujo Ai :) with similar feel and pace.
Shoujo-ai "since of life" series with a little bit of comedy. Fumi is similar to Sumika (tall, with glasses) and Akira is similar to Ushio (cute and crazy).
Same kind of ambiance. ( Calm, sweet, ...)
Both are very great shoujo-ai, with mature caracters who mentaly grows during the serie.
Yuri theme, awesome Aoi Hana. If you liked it, you must watch Sasameki Koto, though is good after the first 2 episodes.
The characters, story and the overall feel that the both animes has.
If one have watched and enjoyed Aoi Hana, they should give Sasameki Koto a try.
Sasemeki Koto is a funnier and less serious Aoi Hana.
Both are shoujo-ai anime with the same feeling. They also have similar characters
Both are beautiful slice of life dramas that involve peculiar romance. Aoi Hana's about 2 girls that fall in love and Hourou Musuko's about a boy that wants to be a girl and a girl that wants to be a boy that fall in love.
They're both adapted from manga which have been written and drawn by the same mangaka, Takako Shimura.
If you like one of these anime, you will like the other.
Besides the fact that they have the same manga author, they have an incredibly similar feel. Both Hourou Musuko and Aoi Hana are slow-paced dramas dealing with different characters as they grow up and issues with their sexuality, although they touch on different topics and the characters in Aoi Hana are a little older. Each of them have great, relaxing BGM to go along with their stories. I'd say they're about the same in quality.
Both animes are based in mangas from the same mangaka.
Similar ethereal art.
The characters express their emotions and problems through plays.
Both are written by the same author hence the similar style and feeling of the series.
The art is also similar in both titles that deals with growing up and falling in love.
Both series also has a slice of life feeling that has a relative pace that combines the mixture of comedy, drama, and overall a good feeling in life at a school setting involving kids growing up.
Opening Theme"Aoi Hana (青い花)" by Kukikodan
Ending Theme"Sentiforia (センティフォリア)" by Ceui
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