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Nong Khiaw (Nong Kiau or Nong Kiew) is a rustic little town on the bank of the Ou River in Laos. It is squeezed in between some of the most fantastic limestone mountains north of Vang Vieng.
Many travellers pass through on the way up river to the even more isolated Muang Ngoi, but Nong Khiaw has a plenty of charm, a decent range of accommodation, plus conveniences suchas 24 hour electricity and a connection to the road network for those interested in exploring the surrounding area.
Get in
Nong Khiaw is 3-4 hours via the road or 6-7 hours by boat from Luang Prabang along the Mekong and Ou River. Boat travel is by far the most spectacular but more costly.
Buses from Udomxay are scheduled 3 times daily (3-4 hours) to Nong Khiaw but may not run on time, or at all, during the low season (depending on passenger numbers). It is possible to negotiate a fare on either the Vang Vieng or Luang Prabang bound bus and disembark at Pak Mong (where the highway turns south). From here a tuk-tuk will take you the last hour or so to Nong Khiaw for around 30,000 kip per person.
Buses from Nong Khiaw: The bus/minivan station in Nong Khiaw is on the edge of town on the western side of the river.
To Luang Prabang and Udomxay run daily at around 09:00 & 11:00 price 40,000 Kip. 4 hrs.+ - To Luang Prabang by Minivan leaving at changing hours and costs 50,000 kip per person. To Luang Namtha you have to take the bus to Udomxay and than change the bus which gives you a quite late arrival in Luang Namtha. It cost 40,000 kip to Udomxay To Muang Khua or Phongsali you need to go to Udomxay (11:00) as well, change bus To Vieng Thong and Sam Neua (near Viengxay and Vietnam border) the bus starts originally from Luang Prabang and you have to be on call around 12.30 +!
The buses run hardly ever on time. Buy your ticket in advance and leave your name! Private minivan to Luang Prabang can cost as low as 500,000 kip. especially if drivers have empty returns.
Get around
Nong Khiaw is simple in layout and small enough to walk around. It's possible to rent a bike at the Riverside Bungalows and Delilah's to explore the 2 roads and surrounding area.
A large concrete road bridge connects Nong Khiaw on the western side of the river with the village of Ban Sop Houn on the eastern side of the river, where many of the river-view bungalows are found.
Since Tiger Trail has opened their tour office in Nong Khiaw there is suddenly something more to see. They will bring you out for various trips, hikes, river tours, bamboo raft workshop, village stay. A must see is the newly discovered 100 waterfalls jungle hike. Daily tours seem to run with min. 2 persons. It gets more affordable with 3-5 people joining. Some of the tours can be found online. [1]
Walk around the village enjoying the village feel with great views over the Nam Ou river.
Walk or bicycle on the dirt road behind the Riverside resort for some scenic views and nature.
Rated one of the best hikes in Laos is the is the "100 Waterfalls" trek operated by Tiger Trail and Fair trek initiative [2] [3] Some of thier treks go to the interactive culture lodge.
Go rock climbing or abseiling with Nong Kiau Climbing [4] from Green Discovery's office. Kayaking, cycling and trekking also possible.
Phone Travel is the only tour agency in town run by local people. Located just in front of Sabai Sabai massage. They can organize a range of activities and treks. Recommended are the bamboo rafting (one day) and the trek to Sop Jam village with Mr Mang as your guide (2 or 3 days).
Rent a mountain bike and push eastwards to remote Khmu and Hmong villages. Riverside Guest House rents mountain bikes for 50,000 kip and city bikes for 10,000 kip.
Go for a herbal steam bath or massage at Sabai Sabai
The few small shops on the main street cater more for locals than tourists, and offer little more than basic necessities.
Money can be changed near the boat landing - Youth travel agency or over the Bridge at Riverside Guest House. Riverside can also offer cash advances on credit cards.
Vongmany Restaurant - Awesome food and a very good value. The chef learned how to cook from her grandmother as a child and learned modern techniques from a Luang Prabang culinary academy. The only Happy Hour in Nong Khiaw, with some good food and drink specials.
Cold Beer Laos are served everywhere in local restaurants. The small shops sell cheap but decent Lao Lao in unlabeled bottles, probably homemade.
HoboMap has a good map listing all guesthouses here: http://hobomaps.com/NongKiewMap.html
Mid range
Some restaurants and guest houses offer WiFi internet connections. The Nong Khiaw Riverside and Coco Bar have internet computers for a small fee. The speed can be very slow.
Get out
North of Nong Khiaw one hour by boat one finds Muang Ngoy Kao or Old Muang Ngoi, a backpackers favourite with no road access and electricity and a real village feel. Also see the GET IN section for more information.
By Bus
The bus station is located on the west part of Nong Khiaw about a 10 minute walk from the bridge/boat landing. If possible you should always check times/prices with the bus station ticket office prior to travel. English is spoken. As with all travel in Laos, times are a guideline and you should allow for considerable delay.
Private minivan service available by a local named Mang, who speaks English well. Ask any of the expats or restaurant owners and they can give you his phone number. A trip to Luang Namtha costs around 160,000 kip per person person and takes about 6-7 hours. Prices negotiable. It seemed that he would be willing to drive just about anywhere.
By Boat
You can take a public boat to Luang Prabang; the trip takes approximately 8 hours and costs 110,000 kip per person. Purchase tickets at the office near the boat landing (near the bridge). The boat won't leave until all seats are filled - either 12 or 18. As of mid-April, the boat left at 11:00. Alternatively, you can arrange a private boat. Riverside Eco-lodge will arrange it for 1.5 million kip for the entire boat, or you can ask around. Takes only about 6 hours by private boat which makes fewer stops with less waiting time, and you can make as many stops as you want on the way.
Boats that go up the river to Muang Ngoi Neua leave regularly in the high season until 15:00 –takes 1 hour costs 25,000 kip. In low season there is one boat definitively at 9:30 and another at 14:00. Some of the boats continue to Muang Khua
Boats on the Nam Ou: To Muang Ngoi the public boats leaves around 11.00 and around 14:00. The price is around 25.000 kip. Private boats coat 300,000-400,000 kip one way, but can be cheaper if the person driving needs to go anyway. Speedboat (30 min. only) cost return 400,000 and is more dangerous. To Luang Prabang Public boats are not so common but normally start at 11:00-12:00The road offers a much faster way to go but less interesting. A private boat down to Luang Prabang (6-7 hours) would cost about 1 to 1.3 million kip. It's recommended to get a small group together and share the cost as the trip is worth it. You can leave your name at the boat station! If it runs like a public boat you are supposed to pay around 150,000 Kip per person (4 times the price of a public Minivan) In high season there are normally enough people to go. Speedboat to LPB costs 1 million kip and takes 2.5 hrs. (up to 6 persons)
Further on the Nam Ou to Muang Khua The boats leave around 11.00 if there are enough people to fill it. A charter cost about 1.1 million kio, and takes about 6 hours. Visit the boat landing and pass by a few times to check if there are some/enough people. Speedboats to Muang Khua costs 1 million kip and, and takes 2.5 hours. Especially the part north of Muang Ngoi is extremely picturesque and worth visiting/cruising through. You can do that also with a day cruise from Muang Ngoi in a small boat.
Remember: In Laos even the public transportation is mostly privately owned and drivers stand in a queue to grab the next job/drive. So if there is no profit, they won't go! If travelling alone you might be waiting for the next boat or busload of people to turn up.


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With wireless, you gain configuration flexibility. For example, you can move an operator panel to the other side of a line without needing to run a new Ethernet cable. But one of the amusing things about "wireless" systems is that they nearly always contain far more wire, wired components, and connectors than they would if hard-wired point to point.
The "wireless" aspect describes the "end points" in the system, not its backbone or trunks. Wireless is equipment-intensive — especially if you need to project it around various electromagnetic barriers, such as steel columns. Consequently, a "wireless" system has additional choke points and points of failure over a hard-wired version of the same thing.
Your first step is to isolate where these problems are occurring. You may find a single switch is handling too much bandwidth. Offloading some nodes onto a new switch may solve that problem.
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Utah Statehood 1896
(Call number MS d 5373 Description Autobiography Martin Luther Ensign. Historical Department-Church Archives 50 East North Temple Street, East Wing Salt lake City, Utah 84150 phone (801) 240-2272.)
Letter written by Martin Luther ENSIGN (1831-1911) regarding the 1896 Utah Statehood events. These are hard to read please help fill in the blanks.
See: UT Statehood post for transcript.
Click on the letters to enlarge and read.
Martin Luther ENSIGN was 16 years old when he arrived in Utah with his widowed mother Mary BRONSON ENSIGN and siblings September 22, 1847.
Ancestral Chain: Martin Luther ENSIGN, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN, George Ensign SMITH, Camilla SMITH, Lark, TR.
Labels: Church History, ENSIGN Martin Luther, UT Statehood
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- Myrle Dalton said...
Where do you find this stuff? GREAT! Would you transfer this to my blog? I'll work at trying to deciper anything. Luvmyrle
- September 2, 2010 at 7:20 PM
- Myrle Dalton said...
Again, I say thank you. DId I tell you that Denise came and stayed a couple of nights with me with her granddaughter Erika?
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Cream always rises
Google's Chrome took the crown as the world's most-used web browser last Sunday, March 18th. But as the world suited up to go back to work on Monday, Internet Explorer re-gained the lead. So says online service StatCounter, although the service also urges us all to take its data with a grain of salt. That's because while it …
Let's not forget that Chrome isn't perfect. While it has definitely improved the web immensely, it's now the buggiest modern browser I know save the last time I looked at Opera.
Chrome is my main browser, but it's not hard for me to see when I do testing that IE9's graphics performance is far higher, I just prefer Chrome's appearance.
Jagged edges on rotated elements, rendering flaws that have crept in on fixed position stuff when GPU acceleration started and a pile of unfixed web kit bugs I still have to write fixes for means that Chrome may be a lot better than IE8 and it is, but it's no absolute knight in shining armour.
Bring on IE10 Microsoft, the world needs to be kept on it's toes.
"Let's not forget that Chrome isn't perfect. While it has definitely improved the web immensely, it's now the buggiest modern browser I know save the last time I looked at Opera."
With you on this. They tried so hard to replace IE6, and they're replacing it with an all new set of bugs. I build for Gecko, then cross-browser test, and these days Chrome gives me as many issues as IE does (though in fairness I anticipate the IE ones).
But you point that out to people and they just reply "yeah, but it's fast." So friggin what? Chrome renders pages 0.0002 seconds faster? What is that worth if it doesn't render them properly?
I agree with you here. I use IE as my main browser as I work with a lot of MS products like remote web work place & SharePoint and none of the other browsers support them fully. But I do see a big difference between Chrome and IE in terms of graphics and I am using windows 8 at the moment and I have to say IE 10 beast everything out there so far. The pages look amazing on my laptop even better than IE9 and I have yet to find a web page that dose not work with it.
From speaking to people who use Chrome I have asked them why they use it and around 40% of the people I have asked have said what's chrome I use Google for my browser and the reason why they have chrome as there default brewers is because if you use Google as your main search page you get a big banner on the page saying install chrome and most people who use a pc day today just click things because they say click them and this is the reason why they use chrome as there browser and not because they like it over IE.
But I am also a believe one product is not right for everyone. I don't like google as my main search I used Dogpile up until bing came out and I now find Bing better for what I search for and its the same with IE it works with every page I use where the others don't but not everyone needs access to what I need that is why we have choice.
"I use IE as my main browser as I work with a lot of MS products like remote web work place & SharePoint and MS won't release versions that properly support web standards, so none of the other browsers work."
While realizing the net effect is the same for you and your customer, assigning fault properly is critical to getting it fixed.
"While it has definitely improved the web immensely, it's now the buggiest modern browser I know save the last time I looked at Opera."
Let me guess: Opera 10.5? That one was definitely a mistake -- the only version of Opera I've had issues with in the last decade.
Foxit reader, who were a great bit of software but then decided to change your homepage and search engine(and possibly install a toolbar) to their preference WITHOUT an option to the user.
Yes, they apologised, but then did it again in the next version.
Did not install it again after that.
If the current trend continues (which it probably won't), Chrome will pass 50% market share in two years, and IE will be dead and forgotten in five.
Safari usage shows a similar jaggedness, which suggests a 'use PCs at work but Macs at home' demographic. The Firefox line has become relatively smooth, though; anyone have an interpretation of what that means?
>>The Firefox line has become relatively smooth, though; anyone have an interpretation of what that means?
I only know what it means from my usage, so it would only be an explanation if I'm typical.
I made a Firefox over IE decision years ago and nothing that has happened since has caused me to change it. Firefox is now supported for pretty much everything I do, apart from the odd rogue app at work, so I use it for everything.
Mozilla have done their level best to get rid of me, with intrusive updates and interface changes, and I'm now using 3.6 at work and whatever the latest one is at home. I did look at Chrome briefly, but the time it would take to get it working the way I want just seems too much, compared with the odd tweak every now and then to get round the annoyances in Firefox.
So I guess Firefox has flatlined because of inertia on the part of long term users, but doesn't have what it takes to tempt new converts, so Chrome is growing at the expense of IE.
"Mozilla have done their level best to get rid of me, with intrusive updates and interface changes"
This again? Those "interface changes" are so unbelievably easy to get rid of that I can't even remember what they look like. They came in in v4, I turned them off in about 3 seconds, and my profile has continued without them to the present day. If that stopped you upgrading for another 7 versions, how do you cope when moving between Windows versions?
You misunderstand. I'm on 3.6 at work because that's what's supported. At home I've got used to the new interface and changed the bits I couldn't get on with, so it's ok, but there was a point where I was getting seriously fed up with Firefox.
How do I cope with moving between Windows versions? I don't. I stayed on XP as long as I could. I now have Windows 7 at work and at home, and I don't like it, but that's just my preference.
Just had Firefox badgering me to update to V11.0. With a popup, in front of what I'm doing. I'm busy, go away. (They should rename it Firebadger.)
Firefox portable may be partly the reason - work users on locked down desktops can still run Firefox rather than IE without admin rights just by using the portable version of Firefox. Installing Chrome requires (I believe) admin rights. This would allow users to have Firefox at work & home more easily.
"Installing Chrome requires (I believe) admin rights."
Sure as hell doesn't. Last time I let Chrome onto the network, it would install itself into user profiles to bypass Windows Installer lockouts. It's not that its malware because installers come with it checked as default - it's malware because its installation method deliberately bypasses security restrictions through poor coding/software practices.
Not trying to stand up for Google here, but how come Windows will run exe's that are sat in the user profile folders? These are for app data, not apps themselves. If MS had any sense they'd lock this shit down right now and pop up a "restore ie as default" message when Chrome tries to load from the profile and excepts. That would be hillaire!
I'm fairly sure I have read recently (perhaps in a Win8 context) that Microsoft are indeed considering exactly this.
It wouldn't be targetted specifically against Chrome (and so wouldn't pop up anything asking about browser defaults) but some future version of their freebie AV package might default to nuking any EXEs that get written to application data folders.
"Last time I let Chrome onto the network, it would install itself into user profiles to bypass Windows Installer lockouts."
I found that odd, and annoying as hell, but it's not necessarily 100% pure evil. It could be that it's doing that to give people a choice when they otherwise wouldn't have one. Of course by doing that Google is pitting themselves squarely against BOFHs everywhere, which seems like an unwise thing to do.
You're right. It won't.
The flat line for Firefox is presumably explained by the fact that it is nobody's default browser, except for Linux distros with bog-all market share. If you are a FF user, you've probably installed it in bother places. If you stick with the default, you use a different browser in both places. (Opera's line looks flat, too, but it is so low that this might reflect the resolution of the graphic rather than the raw data.)
Chrome's rise is probably also explained by its being a piece of malware that bleeds onto machines whether you wanted it or not. At work, you may have a sys-admin willing to block malware trying to install itself without any administrative blessing (*). This is much less likely at home (hence the dichotomy) but eventually either or both of MS and AV companies will wise up and start blocking "drive-by XCOPY installs from untrusted web sites" and then Chrome's main distribution mechanism will be gone.
"Chrome's rise is probably also explained by its being a piece of malware that bleeds onto machines whether you wanted it or not."
Are you really suggesting that Chrome's success (for better or worse) is due to it being so clever it can sneak inside installers all by itself ? Or is it more likely vendors are putting it there themselves and playing the normal irritating games like not telling you what, or having defaulted 'Install Chrome' checkboxes buried away... that's bloody annoying, I agree, but I think the finger of blame might be pointed somewhere other than Chrome itself.
"eventually either or both of MS and AV companies will wise up and start blocking "drive-by XCOPY installs from untrusted web sites" and then Chrome's main distribution mechanism will be gone."
Main distribution mechanism ? Interesting.. I look forward to your stats.
You can whine about stat all you want to, but according to the security folks at my not so small government agency, Chrome is technically malware because it bypasses administrative installation restrictions. Those of us working the help desk aren't authorized to install it, but we can't stop users from installing it either, even when they don't have the proper privileges.
"The flat line for Firefox is presumably explained by the fact that it is nobody's default browser, except for Linux distros with bog-all market share."
Ummmm....its flatlined at 20-odd percent, isn't it? Kinda goes against the "only Linux hippies use it" argument.
And yeah, Chrome's installer is evil. I can't believe they haven't caught more flak for actively bypassing system restrictions in order to install it. I figured out how to block it on my Windows machines and did so immediately. My philosophy is, if you're willing to do that, then I can't trust you, so get the hell off my machines.
Android browser is just Android, no connection to Chrome at all.
Chrome for Android is coming, and is available in beta, as long as your on Android 4.0+. Rumour is that Chrome will take over as the default Android browser once out of beta, but would guess that will be in Android 5.0+ late this year.
But for the moment, most Chrome user stats like these will be desktop users, not mobile.
I find a surprising number of my "home user" clients have Chrome on their PCs, but no idea where it came from. It gets packed into so many other product installers that it should be classed as Malware. I think I even spotted it as part of a Java Update installer which would give it a huge install base.
The average home user always accepts the defaults of any installation package. So gets stuck with Chrome without knowing how to get rid of it. This is the marketing method that Google have chosen. Which is dishonest.
Safari used to be installed as default with iTunes, until Apple stopped the practice due to complaints. Yet Google are getting away with these stealth installs.
" It gets packed into so many other product installers that it should be classed as Malware."
I would class the installer as malware myself.
"Safari used to be installed as default with iTunes, until Apple stopped the practice due to complaints. Yet Google are getting away with these stealth installs."
Safari and iTunes are from the same vendor, who decided to install both items. Google, for all their sins, are NOT, in general, the people who distribute the software that is shipping Chrome. I've no particular love of Google, but I find it hard to blame them for every idiot software developer that thinks it's really clever to decide what browser their user should have.
You and I know how to change options in the installers. It is the average home user I am talking about here. The ones who have never heard of El'Reg. Especially those from a older generation. Many of these people will not change any setting "in case they break the computer". This means they assume they have to install these addons. Including the Bing, Ask, Google, Conduit bars. Every default gets left untouched in everything they install.
I suppose you do bring up one positive of Chrome - when that home user has their browser swap from IE they escape the 15 toolbars that have been installed into IE by a similar process.
So there we were, writing web apps, and some people upgraded to IE9.
Guess what. Javascript libraries (Jquery, and open source jquery tools,) that used to work, suddenly started throwing errors, because IE9 elaborated the toolkits before it elaborated the Jquery file.
What can you expect when a bunch of "Let's build dependency by putting ludicrous functionality into our product" marketing wankers, all with an IQ under 50 have a say?
Microsoft should become a technology company again, not some government vehicle to employ useless people off the back of a few brilliant techies.
Yes, you will find this as no other browser can be managed out of the box by group policy. It's not that the tech is old and us sysadmins dont want to install a new browser cos we're behind the times, it's that we have no central control over the browser security if we install something else.
Unless the Mozilla foundation or Google have written some ADMX's for their browsers, I'm not really interested.
"Yes, you will find this as no other browser can be managed out of the box by group policy"
Also, while Firefox doesn't have anything similar out of the box, but there are number of packaged installs, plugins, and other resources that can accomplish this, e.g. FrontMotion (www.frontmotion.com/FireFox), firefoxADM (see e.g. http://support.kaspersky.com/faq/?qid=208281905) and PolicyPak. It would be understandable if these non-Microsoft solutions were not acceptable, or desirable, especially from an ease-of-use point of view - but it certainly *is* possible to do some group policy work over LDAP (ActiveDirectory).


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Truck backs over sleeping man at Houston construction site
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A man died early Friday morning after he was run over by a piece of heavy equipment east of downtown.
The incident happened about 4:50 a.m. at 4700 Harrisburg near Lockwood in the East End, according to the Houston Police Department.
Police said the operator of a swingloader was attempting to load rails at a construction supply staging site. When the loader backed up it hit the man, who was sleeping on the pavement. The man died at the scene.
Police said the man was not authorized to be on the property.


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CLINTON TWP — A natural gas compressor station is coming to the township.
It may be built in the spring of 2014, but it could be held off until 2015. Construction will take four to five months.
The project was approved Tuesday night by the township supervisors.
The Superior Appalachian Pipeline LLC plant will be on 20 acres off Lardintown Road. The pad will be on eight acres.
Two buildings are proposed; each would be 240 by 65 feet and 30 feet tall. Each could contain up to five compressors.
Compressor stations maintain pressure in pipelines that move natural gas.
Dan Wallace, environmental engineering consultant for the project, said that parts of a gravel road leading to the site will be widened and moved away from wetlands to comply with environmental regulations.
Because a visual screening buffer is required, few trees on the site will be removed.
Supervisor Mary Zacherl asked about added truck traffic. Paul Corrigan, project manager for Superior Appalachian, said that although more trucks will be used in construction, only one truck will go to the site once a day during operations.
Supervisor Jim Halstead asked how close the nearest house is to the site. Corrigan answered 400 feet.
Zacherl told Corrigan and Wallace that Superior Appalachian will need to submit for a building permit when the company is ready to build.


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Liberty News
'She Loves Me' opens at Tower Theater
Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock's quirky romantic musical "She Loves Me" opens this weekend on the Tower Theater stage, presented by the Liberty University Department of Theatre Arts.
This is the first time the show will be performed at the Tower Theater, but it has been an acclaimed Broadway show since 1963. It has been adapted several times, including for the movie "You've Got Mail."
Liberty's cast of 25 will perform with a live orchestra.
"It's a romantic comedy with a simple, yet captivating musical score that will hopefully elicit smiles," said Chris Nelson, director. "The show also is set during Christmas, which makes it fun combining the romantic elements with that time of year."
The comedy is set in the 1930s and follows the relationship of Amalia Balash and George Nowack. The two work at Mr. Maraczek's Parfumerie, arguing endlessly while unknowingly writing loving words to each other as part of a romantic pen pal service.
"The essence of the story is that love is right under our noses sometimes, but we're so caught up in the idea of finding the perfect mate that we fail to see the people around us," Nelson said.
"She Loves Me" runs Nov. 30 through Dec. 9 and will have eight performances. Showtimes and tickets are available through the Tower Theater website or by calling the Liberty Ticket Office at (434) 582-7328.


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The Stupidity Of Installing Bloatware That No One Uses... And Everyone Hates
from the just-a-bad-idea-all-around dept
Now, I can imagine the execs at various app developers who got all excited when they had a chance to become a default app on a Samsung flagship phone like the S3, S4 or S5. After all, Samsung sells a ton of these phones. So if Samsung approaches you and offers to make you a default, it's got to be hard to say no. Because what they're offering is to put your app in front of many millions of potential users. And given the big hurdle of getting people to even download free apps, that must seem like a huge victory.
Until you realize that everyone hates unnecessary and unwanted bloatware. Beyond the study above showing that no one uses those apps, I recently looked at the Google Play Store reviews of many of the Samsung choices for bloatware. And pretty consistently, the large majority or reviews are about how they don't know why the app is on their phone and they're pissed that they can't delete it. Take, for example, Blurb Checkout, part of Samsung's near-totally-useless "book-making app." People absolutely loathe it almost entirely because it's a bloatware default app. Out of over 22,000 reviews, it has over 16,000 one star reviews. And nearly all of the reviews look like the "highlighted" ones on the page:


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ASPEN A skier who died after hitting a tree at Snowmass ski area has been identified as 42-year-old David Schreitmueller of Kensington, Md.
The skiers father, Dick Schreitmueller, tells the Aspen Daily News his son loved skiing and was the kind of person who always wanted to help people. The elder Schreitmueller said his son was a careful, skilled skier but often tried to do things most people wouldnt try.
Aspen Skiing Co. officials say Schreitmueller was unconscious and unresponsive when ski patrol arrived at the scene Friday morning. He was pronounced dead at the base of the ski area.
Schreitmueller, who was wearing a helmet, was at Snowmass to compete in the NASTAR National Championships, but he wasnt on the course at the time of the accident.


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David Gerstein
A painter and sculptor, David Gerstein is one of Israel's most famous artists. Gerstein's large scale sculptures can be seen in cities throughout Israel and the world. His unique works have even been given by Israel's Foreign Ministry to heads of state from around the world. Gerstein's work can be found in museums, as well as private homes and collections throughout the world.
Born in Jerusalem, Gerstein was raised in Tel Aviv and Ramat Gan. Gerstein studied painting and drawing at Bezalel Academy of Arts in Jerusalem, Ècole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Art in Paris, France, and the Arts Student League in New York, he studied lithography and screen printing at St. Martin's School of Art in London England where he received his MA. Today, David Gerstein works from his studio in Jerusalem, his works retains local and autobiographical elements as he draws inspiration from nature, human behavior, and daily life, while using spectacular color and layering to create his own unique and easily recognizable style.
David Gerstein's unique style comes from his desire to push the limitations of two-dimensional painting into three-dimensional sculptor. His easily recognizable compositions are created using universal colorful and layered images of still-life's, urban landscapes, and human activities and Judaica symbols such as the hamsa. Using lasers to precisely cut his designs from paper, steel, and other metals, David Gerstein paints each cut out either by hand or through a variety of serigraphy and screen printing techniques. Once painted, the cutouts are layered to bring to life the three-dimensional sculpture.
Gerstein's collection is made up of a range from the functional small objects such as bowls and menorahs to wall sculptures, free standing sculptures, paintings, and prints. Here at World of Judaica, we are proud to offer a wide selection of David Gerstein works including bowls, free standing sculptures, menorahs and more.
David Gerstein Guide
One of Israel's most famous artists, David Gerstein is a painter and sculptor. His easily recognizable colorful sculptors can be found in museums and private homes and collections, as well as, in public spaces around the world. David Gerstein seeks to expand the limits of two- dimensional paintings into three-dimensional sculptures. His unique works have been given by Israel's Foreign Ministry to heads of state around the world.
About David Gerstein
Born in Jerusalem he later moved with his family to Ramat Gan. He took an interest in art at a young age. Gerstein studied at Bezalel Academy of Arts in Jerusalem, Ècole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Art in Paris, France, and the Arts Student League in New York. He would later go on to receive his MA from St. Martin's School of Art in London England, where he learned lithography and silk screen printing.
After years of painting, Gerstein sought to expand the borders of painting to the domain of the third-dimension and began experimenting in sculpture. He discovered that by painting on large scale cardboard he could cut and assemble the elements into a type of sculpture in space. The idea came to him while dismantling cardboard boxes containing cartridges. Following a number of sculptures from cardboard, Gerstein used wood and thin aluminum. In 1995 after years of woodcutting, Gerstein discovered the use of laser and began using them to cut metals which he would then paint using shiny colors taken from the car industries.
David Gerstein aspires to make art that speaks to the art world but still remains accessible to the everyday man on the street. His unique style comes from his desire to expand the limits of two- dimensional art into three-dimensional sculpture, and the inspiration he gets from Israel. His works are most well-known for his spectacular use of color which comes from his desire to copy nature.
Designs and Techniques
David Gerstein creates colorful and layered images of urban landscapes, still-life compositions, and human activities. His works consist of indoor wall sculpture s created from multi- layered cutouts, outdoor works, sculptors, paintings, and prints. His works range from the functional small objects such as bowls and menorahs to wall sculptures, free standing sculptures, paintings, and prints. Using everything from paper to steel and other metals, Gerstein uses lasers to precisely cut out designs that are then painted either by hand or through a variety of serigraphy and screen printing techniques before they are layered to create his final designs.
Drawing inspiration from Israeli life, Gerstein's works retain local and autobiographical elements. Common themes include butterflies, flowers, bicycles, music, human behavior, windows, and Judaica symbols such as the hamsa.
For More Information
For more information on sculptures, David Gerstein or other Israeli artists contact our Judaica Experts today with any questions or comments.


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See What Inspired The S/S 14 Collections Before They Hit The Runways
Find out who and what inspired the designs featured in the upcoming shows of Rebecca Minkoff, Tory Burch, and more with a rare glimpse at their brilliant mood boards and sketches.
Inspired by: knotted.
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Daniel Vosovic
"A recent trip to Istanbul was the catalyst for my S/S 14 collection. I incorporated many of the vibrant colors and patterns from my surroundings, but reinterpreted in modern new fabrications and methods." — Daniel Vosovic
"For spring 14, I was imagining fireflies in a forest of birch trees at the darkest hour before the dawn. I was thinking about transitions and the idea that the end of something is always the beginning of something else..."—Giovanna Randall
"I imagined a movie about the beach with two stories happening simultaneously: the first centers around surfing the California coast. The strength of surfers and the casual lifestyle they lead wearing floral prints, modern fabrics, and bold colors. This rugged sportiness is set against a second story: the European beach culture at the turn of the century. The lido lifestyle of the Venetian coast—walking along the boardwalk in whites, lace, eyelets, and gondolier-inspired stripes, like the romantic and cinematic images of a Visconti film." —Tom Mora, Head of Women's Design
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Jeremy Laing
Jeremy has a lot of exciting pieces in the works this season: a collaboration with artist Julia Dault on custom prints based on her work, launching footwear with LD Tuttle, and introducing Menswear for the first time!
"The Joie girl is classic and effortless; always capturing a balance of California cool meets Parisian chic. This season, we imagined her beachside, perusing open markets on the streets of St. Tropez, and finding inspiration from the Mediterranean's clean and pure color palette" —Serge Azria
Inspired by: the intersection of form and function.
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Karen Walker
Inspired by: utopia.
"I was particularly drawn to a futuristic but delicate idea of Japan. I went to Tokyo for the first time in November and was inspired by everything about the city, from old kimono fabrics to Japanese photographic prints from the 1880s, as well as the amazing attention to detail and intelligence in product design." —Anna Laub (Founder/Creative Director, Prism)
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Rachel Zoe
"Modern safari mixed with ethereal elements" —Rachel Zoe
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Rebecca Minkoff
"We looked at Bianca Jagger's life prior to her Studio 54 days, and we were drawn to her Latin American upbringing. Other influential Latin American women across all decades started coming to mind with Frida Kahlo at one end of the spectrum and contemporaries such as Carolina Issa and Alice Dellal at the other. The result was American sportswear-inspired pieces with strong Latin American details: bursts of color, saturated prints, rich textures and intricate embroidery."—Rebecca Minkoff
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Bibhu Mohapatra
Inspired by: geometry and poetry.
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Rebecca Taylor
Inspired by: modern romanticism. Construction details and trims reference early American workwear with a hint of feminism. Key silhouettes experiment with proportion—cropped tops, full trousers, and teacup skirts are paired with soft, modern volume in rounded sleeve shapes. Botanic inspiration is abstracted in prints, with transparent layers of color.
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Tanya Taylor
Inspired by: African maximalism.
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Tory Burch
"The spring 14 collection is inspired by the freedom and motion associated with Gerhard Richter's work blended with the colours and stateliness of the English countryside." —Misha Nonoo
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Jill Stuart
Inspired by: renegade.
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Jenni Kayne
Inspired by: military and nautical preppiness gone ethnic. Strong shoulder and softening of military uniforms. Outerwear is key. Blazers, softer blazer coats, several takes on the tuxedo jacket for day. Mixing prints and textures adds dimension to the collection.
"The butterfly on the hand is Ava Hama's (half of the Bellavance design team)."
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Big Park
"The collection focuses on shape and form, silhouette, and pattern. Drawing inspiration from folk art paintings" —Park Youn Soo
"For S/S 14, we joined the Gypset, tapping into the idea of the stylish traveler who seeks out immersive, evocative experiences the world over. We wanted to explore their sense of exotic travel, their spirit of adventure and their wanderlust. As much about travel as it is the ideas that travel inspires, spring for us is a season rich with the colors, the smells, the textures, and the craft of far away places and far away times. This is the season to explore."
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Cynthia Rowley
Inspired by: traveling and discovering nature during the journey, from Asia to Arizona. The Tibi woman is embarking on a road trip that mixes environmental beauty with the grittiness of getting to her end destination. Think: the greys of tire tracks, the reflection of blue skies on rice paddies and desert sky lines. The collection showcases natural fabric but presents it with modernity so that the linen, raw denim, and cotton poplin are paired with prints and embroideries inspired by tire tracks, the sky, and cactus.


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Bill Knight
Owner of The Wine House
The Wine House discovers $400,000 in 'lost' inventory using SAS®
Midsize wine retailer achieves 100% ROI in less than six months
Economic times may be tough, but Bill Knight, owner and president of The Wine House, is toasting a 100 percent return on his investment in SAS® Enterprise BI for Midsize Business.
The first day the SAS application was live, the brick-and-mortar and Internet retailer discovered 1,000 items of wine that hadn't moved in more than a year.
"That's significant cash tied up in inventory," says Knight. "We had a huge sale to blow it out, generating $400,000 in capital in one weekend, and just in time, because in today's economy, we'd be choking on that inventory."
Midsized solution, rapid implementation
With annual sales of $20 million, the 30-year-old firm is the largest wine merchant in Southern California, but with no IT department and a point-of-sale system that could not provide inventory aging, Knight had no way to track the age of his extensive inventory.
Knight attended a retail technology conference and spoke with several vendors, but SAS was the only one with solutions scaled for midsize businesses. Working with a channel partner, The Wine House had SAS up and running within four weeks.
Aged inventory reduced by 40 percent
"The biggest benefit of SAS has been the ability to drill down into the specifics of our inventory," Knight told Information Management magazine for a SAS product review.
With SAS, Knight now has a real-time view into his inventory and is able to drill down by department, supplier, margins, price points, age – all the way down to pinpointing slow-moving bottles on the shelf so that he can promote them and move them out.
"This is a tremendous benefit for a retailer, especially in this economy, to know exactly what's going on in the business in a timely way with as much detail as needed," says Knight.
Using SAS, The Wine House has reduced its aged inventory by 40 percent. "Managing inventory is a crucial balancing act, and SAS allows us to know exactly what's going on so that we can move quickly," says Knight.
I've got less money tied up in inventory. I know where our customers are coming from, how to market to them and can monitor the effectiveness of our marketing. Our ROI with SAS has been well over 100 percent.
Bill Knight
Better buying decisions
SAS also allows The Wine House to offer customers more of what they would like to buy. "Our reports showed us early on that people were still buying wine, they were just buying $20 bottles instead of $100 bottles, so we took action to shift our inventory to lower-priced merchandise," says Knight.
A story from the Internet Retailer further demonstrates how The Wine House is using SAS to fine-tune buying strategy: During the holidays, the retailer pulled back from a planned $30,000 wine purchase because analytics revealed how much of the supplier's product was already in stock and hadn't moved in a year.
"I told him we couldn't take any more of his inventory until we worked through what we had," says Knight. "We knew we had a problem, but other than walking the floor and recalling, we couldn't identify this kind of information before."
$60,000 savings in one simple step
Now that they have a handle on inventory, Knight is focusing on his customers. Using SAS to clean up the customer database and purge the mailing list, The Wine House saved $60,000 in printing and postage alone, said Knight.
"Now we're using SAS to know who our individual customers are, what regions of the country our business is coming from, and to focus on generating more international business," says Knight.
"The next thing we're going to do is build a dashboard that shows us current customers, new customers and retention rates so that if our new customer or retention count is going down, we'll know right away and can do something about it," says Knight.
Clean customer data = outstanding customer service
Moving forward, Knight's goal is to set The Wine House apart by providing a "wow" experience for customers that keeps them coming back. For example, hosting special wine-tasting dinners for a well-segmented group of customers, or using buying history to reach out to customers with a special offer on their favorite wine before offering it to the general public.
"Supermarkets sell wine and have a lot more marketing resources than I do," says Knight. "But SAS is allowing me to do more sophisticated marketing so that I can keep up with the big boys."
"Now, I can get the answers I need and base decisions on facts rather than gut intuition," says Knight. "As a result, I've got less money tied up in inventory, I know who our best customers are, how to market to them and can monitor the effectiveness of our marketing.
"Our ROI with SAS has been well over 100 percent," says Knight. "I made all my money back in less than a year, so my return on investment has been fantastic."
1 Information Management, May 2009.
2 Internet Retailer, January 2009.
To survive the recession and move the business forward, The Wine House needed to track the productivity of its extensive inventory and access current, accurate customer data to better service and market to its best customers.
SAS® Enterprise BI for Midsize Business
Using SAS, The Wine House discovered $400,000 of lost inventory, reduced aged inventory by 40 percent and has real-time access to customer data for better targeted marketing.
Les résultats présentés dans cet article sont spécifiques à des situations, problématiques métiers et données particulières, et aux environnements informatiques décrits. L'expérience de chaque client SAS est unique et dépend de variables commerciales et techniques propres, de ce fait les déclarations ci-dessus doivent être considérées dans un contexte. Les gains, résultats et performances peuvent varier selon les configurations et conditions de chaque client. SAS ne garantit ni ne déclare que chaque client obtiendra des résultats similaires. Les seules garanties relatives aux produits et services de SAS sont celles qui sont expressément stipulées dans les garanties contractuelles figurant dans l'accord écrit conclu avec SAS pour ces produits et services. Aucune information contenue dans le présent document ne peut être interprétée comme constituant une garantie supplémentaire. Les clients ont partagé leurs succès avec SAS dans le cadre d'un accord contractuel ou à la suite de la mise en œuvre réussie du progiciel SAS. Les noms de marques et de produits sont des marques déposées de leurs sociétés respectives.


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Automatic Gates add style and security to your property and provide all the benefits of extra safety, security and confidence.
At Cheshire Gates we understand that every customer's needs are different.
- Consider the security and convenience in the wind and rain. Your gates will open and close at the touch of a button.
- Consider the benefits of your children playing safely within your secure driveway.
- Consider the advantage of vetting callers before they ever reach your front door.
- Consider your vehicle safe and secure behind your automatic gates with access denied from the road.
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The Virginia Department of Transportation maintains most roads in Fairfax County. To report a road problem Fill out VDOT's online form or Call 1-800-FOR- ROAD (800-367-7623).
- Road Maintenance Map
- Report Grass Mowing, Potholes, Signal Outages and More
- Sidewalks and Trails
- Snow Removal
- Street Lights, Traffic Signals and Signs
Generally, if a road has a route number associated with it (ex: Fairfax County Parkway - Route 286), it is maintained by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). This includes most primary and secondary roads in the county. Maintenance includes potholes; traffic signals and signs (except street name signs); trees/branches; roadside ditches, curbs and gutters; and snow removal.
- To report a problem call their Highway Help Line at 1-800-FOR-ROAD (1-800-367-7623), TTY: 711 or place a work request on-line.
- VDOT pothole information page.
Other Major Roads
VDOT does not maintain all major roads in the area, however. If you see maintenance issues on the following major roads:
- Dulles Toll Road, contact the Washington Metropolitan Airports Authority.
- George Washington Memorial Parkway, contact the National Park Service.
Fairfax County Maintained Roads
Very few miles of public roadway are maintained by Fairfax County.
- If there's a maintenance issue on a road you know is maintained by the county, then contact 703-877-2800, TTY 711.
- For assistance in determining public or private responsibility for a road, please contact VDOT at 1-800-FOR-ROAD, TTY 711, or send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Private and HOA Roads
Many private roads are maintained by businesses, apartment/condo complexes, homeowner/civic associations or residents.
- If you know there's a maintenance issue on a road that's privately maintained, contact your HOA or the business that's responsible.
- For assistance in determining public or private responsibility for a road, please contact VDOT at 1-800-FOR-ROAD, TTY 711, or send an email to email@example.com.


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Goldie is dead?
We are in shock as news reaching Nigerian blogger Linda Ikeji is that Nigerian Singer and former Big Brother Contestant Goldie has just died.
This is the news according to Linda
Just got a call from her best friend and my close friend, Denrele Edun. He told me Goldie died a few minutes ago in his arms at Reddington Hospital in Victoria Island. Goldie just came back from the US today he said, and was so full of life, then something went tragically wrong. Will get all the details from him in a bit, he was crying so much and had to switch off his phone. I'm shaking so bad. She and I had a conversation a few days ago while she was in the US. Oh dear Lord. Is this how people die? May her soul rest in peace..Amen.
Update: Goldie's management has confirmed that she died today, Valentine's Day the 14th of February 2013. Here is the message released on Twitter and Facebook.
It is with heavy heart that I have to inform you all that Goldie passed this night shortly after arriving Lagos… fb.me/WUoqKbFt
— OLUWAG♥LDIE (@GoldieHarvey) February 14, 2013
Statement from the CEO of Kennis Music, Kenny Ogungbe
With a deep sense of loss, we announce the shocking death of our darling music star, Goldie Harvey. Goldie, 31, died on Thursday after she complained of a severe headache shortly after her arrival from the United States where she went to witness the Grammy Award. She was rushed from her Park View, Ikoyi, Lagos residence to her official hospital, Reddington, Victoria Island, Lagos, where doctors pronounced her dead on arrival at exactly 7:30pm in the evening.
We consider this period a gloomy moment for us and the entire Nigerian music industry in view of the circumstance in which she passed away; the abundance of talent she exhibited in her short but eventful music career and the various opportunities her trip to the United States of America would have availed her. She is survived by her father, step- mother, brothers and sisters. We deeply sympathise with her family and fans all over the world and very grateful to all and sundry, especially, the vibrant Nigerian media for their concern and prompt reportage. We shall keep everybody informed as events unfold as we are devastated by the sudden loss."
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Mesa, Arizona ~ More than 150 promising young artists submitted entries to Benedictine University at Mesa's statewide art competition each with the hope of winning one of two grand prizes for a 50 percent tuition renewable scholarship.
Arizona high school or community college artists were invited to showcase their artistic talents at the "Masters of Tomorrow Art Exhibition and Scholarship Competition." On Saturday, February 22, scholarship and prize winners will be announced at an awards reception from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. in the Community Room at Gillett Hall at 225 E. Main St. in downtown Mesa. Attendees of the awards reception may also purchase artwork at the exhibition with the artist's permission.
"We really had some outstanding entries that speak well to the caliber of artist talent within Arizona," said Michael R. Tole, assistant professor of Fine Arts at Benedictine University at Mesa. "We are excited to see all the finalists' projects on display and invite the public to come see these wonderful creations."
In order to support and promote young Arizonian artists and provide them with additional resources to pursue higher education in the visual arts, Benedictine University at Mesa in partnership with the Mesa Arts Center announced the scholarship last year.
Tole, an accomplished artist, displayed some his own works as examples of possible submissions during an appearance on ABC 15.
Student applicants competed for several awards with the best in show winners in the high school and community college categories each to earn a 50 percent tuition scholarship at Benedictine University at Mesa.
Several cash prizes will be awarded to winners in other categories to support the students' creative endeavors and art education, Tole said.
Three jurors selected 98 finalists whose works will be displayed at the University's academic building, Gillett Hall, 225 E. Main St. in downtown Mesa, from February 22-March 21, 2014.
For more information on the art program at Benedictine University at Mesa, contact Tole at (480) 878-6708 or email@example.com.
Benedictine University at Mesa provides a private, values-based education grounded in history, heritage and Catholic tradition. Current degree offerings include a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice, Bachelor of Arts in Communication Arts, Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Bachelor of Arts in Theology, Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and Bachelor of Business Administration in Management and Organizational Behavior, in addition to a minor in Religious Studies.
The University is now accepting applications for fall 2014 enrollment.
For more information about Benedictine University at Mesa, please visit the Gregory Enrollment Center at 51 E. Main St., Suite 105, in downtown Mesa or www.ben.edu/mesa, or contact (602) 888-5533 or email@example.com.
Benedictine University at Mesa is a branch campus of Benedictine University, an independent Roman Catholic institution located in Lisle, Illinois, just 25 miles west of Chicago. Founded in 1887, Benedictine is ranked No. 1 among the country's fastest-growing campuses between 2000-2010 in The Chronicle of Higher Education's list of private nonprofit research institutions, and Forbes magazine named Benedictine among "America's Top Colleges" for the third consecutive year in 2013.
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Company designs new Ethernet bridge
B+B Electronics has released a new Ethernet bridge called Ghostbridge. With a line-of-sight range of up to 15km, the 5 GHz GhostBridge creates a transparent, secure, high-speed (up to 150Mbps) point-to-point link between two remote devices or networks, eliminating up to 15km (about 9 miles) of expensive and damage-prone wiring. Sold in pre-configured pairs, the GhostBridge requires no further configuration or software setup; simply mount them, plug them into the network using the included PoE adapters, and then use the LED indicators to align them.
GhostBridge features an 80-degree, 15dBi sector antenna integrated into the housing, and a 5 GHz radio built from 802.11n 2×2 MIMO technology, for long-range (up to 15km) connectivity between remote stations and a central office. Or, users can bridge two networks or hard-to-reach nodes together. A PoE pass-through Ethernet port also allows users to connect remote devices (IP camera, or other) to a LAN. The operating frequency is 5470 – 5825 GHz, and the unit consumes 8 watts maximum power.
Pre-configured with WPA2, 128-bit security, the GhostBridge provides secure, point-to-point data transmission. Users can also configure it to other standards. The two-unit bridge operates over a wide temperature range (-30 to + 80 degrees Centigrade) and outdoor-rated, UV-stabilized enclosures protect the hardware. A pole mount is part of the molded outdoor enclosure, and there's an optional wall mount kit sold separately. Each unit measures 28 x 8.0 x 6.0 cm including the pole-mount brackets.
The $599 package contains two GhostBridge wireless Ethernet bridges (a base station and a node), two AC PoE adapters with power cords, two DC PoE adapters with barrel plug adapters, four heavy-duty cable ties and a quick-start guide. The optional GMT25 swivel wall-mount bracket is available for $19.


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With five years to go until the endpoint of the Millennium Development Goals in 2015—objectives set in 2000 to reduce poverty and improve the quality of life of the world's poorest people—many countries are falling short. Peru's maternal mortality rate—240 mothers die per 100,000 live births—has dropped by half in rural areas but is still far higher than those of other Latin American countries, which highlighs a problem the overall statistics conceal. Even if countries hit their M.D.G. targets, poverty rates remain high among indigenous people, women, children and rural residents. The urban-rural gap also holds true for primary education and access to water and sanitation. Some millennium goals also show a gender gap. In Latin America, although girls outnumber boys in high school and post-secondary education, women hold only one-third of top-level jobs. In places like Panama, Venezuela, urban Brazil and Mexico, more than half of all women in nonfarm jobs work in the informal economy, with no benefits or security. The figure rises to more than 70 percent in cities in Peru and Ecuador.
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Easter is the most important celebration of the Church year — in fact, it lasts for about 50 days. During this time, we commemorate Christ's passion, death and resurrection. He triumphed over death, opened the gates of heaven and sealed the new covenant, and he did it for you. What an incredible thing to celebrate! Build your relationship with Christ and his Church this Easter season.
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Huge levels of cash on corporate balance sheets sets the stage for a new wave of acquisition activity, says a new research note from Morgan Stanley.
The firm identifies some 40 stocks that could be candidates for tender offers in the next 12 months using its new quantitative model, or Acquisition Likelihood Estimate Ranking Tool.
The model uses 10 factors, including dividend yield, debt-to-asset ratio and sector relative price-to-book ratio to identify potential offer recipients.


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There's never been a better time
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Apply online today!
Transfer Students
Transfer students will be advised on an individual basis and should meet with the Athletic Training Program Director to outline his/her clinical requirements. Any student wishing to transfer into the Athletic Training Program (ATP) will be required to complete the traditional first year process.
Transfer students must also complete a minimum of three (3) clinical years of experience in the ATP. Transfer students also must complete a minimum of six (6) clinical experiences. The inability to acquire the required clinical experiences will result in academic disciplinary action. Clinical rotation assignments will not be made until the athletic training student has successfully completed all ATP requirements for their appropriate year listed in the Athletic Training Student Manual.
Clinical Hours During Pre-Seasons and Breaks
Students should be aware that clinical hours completed outside of the scheduled academic term (pre-season in the fall, winter break, and spring break) still count and are considered a part of the respective clinical rotation's grade. Students should talk with their assigned preceptor if there are any concerns with completing any portion of the hour requirement associated with their clinical rotation.
The following is an explanation of the Clinical Education Policy of the ATP. Along with the required clinical proficiencies that you will perform in each respective athletic training course. Each student will be required to complete one of the two options each quarter:
1.) Clinical Rotation
**ONLY if you are assigned to a clinical rotation does this apply to you.**
Each student will be evaluated on his or her respective clinical rotation. Each evaluation is divided by year in the program; therefore, each student will only be graded on the courses they have had to date in the ATP.
The complete evaluation process includes:
Grading Scale for Clinical Rotation Evaluation
Any student receiving a grade below 70% will need to repeat that clinical assignment. Therefore, the clinical assignment where any student receives a grade below 70% will not count towards one of the six required clinical rotations of the major.
Clinical Hour Requirement
The minimum number of hours required for each clinical rotation is 120 with a maximum of 300; however, each student should be aware that in order to receive licensure in Ohio you need a minimum of 800 clinical hours over the course of your three years of clinical rotations. For each specific clinical rotation that the student is assigned, they will be required to fulfill the practice, clinical, and contest requirements for that team and preceptor.
2.) Field Requirement (100 points)
**ONLY if you are NOT assigned to a clinical rotation does this apply to you.**
In order to ensure that the students are exposed to a variety of health care settings, they will be required to complete weekly times in the Freeman Athletic Training Center.
Students will be assigned to spend two hours per week in the FATC; this schedule will also be posted on the website and e-mailed to all students. It is the student's responsibility to notify the ATC on duty when they arrive and leave. Any student that misses an assigned time will lose 10 points for each absence.
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It's the beginning of a new year for kids schooled at home as well
New London — For 10-year-old Skye Harris, the school year is beginning gradually.
Last week, her older sister, Maia Edwards, returned to the New London Science and Technology Magnet School for a busy year of college-level classes, band practice, junior ROTC and hanging out with friends.
But Skye stayed home, reviewing what she had learned last year. On a recent afternoon, she turned the kitchen counter into a lab bench, setting up a graduated cylinder and a box of cornstarch next to a bowl of homemade cookies.
"She's what we define as a 'quirky kid,'" said her mother, Trish Harris, of Skye, who wants to become a Mythbuster or a demolitions expert and requested C4 explosives for her birthday. Harris pulled Skye out of public school in the middle of her third-grade year. The now fifth-grader is "a completely different child" from her older sister, she said.
"Maia is an absolute social butterfly. She excels in places where there are people and noise and movement and activity and just things happening everywhere, teachers talking, kids flipping pencils," said Harris.
But Skye struggles with some sensory issues that, when she was surrounded by a busy classroom with strangers and lots of rules, sometimes led to anxiety and fear. Kindergarten, first and second grade went smoothly at Harbor School, where the staff knew the Harris family and teachers developed creative ways to work with Skye's quirks.
But Harbor then closed, and Skye moved to Winthrop Elementary Magnet School - a larger, unfamiliar environment. Disruptions like fire drills or rearranged desks would throw Skye off for the entire day. Getting Skye out of bed and ready for school became a fight. Getting her to do her homework after a stressful day was a fight. Sometimes Skye would be so stressed she wouldn't have an appetite for dinner, and that would become a fight too.
"She was just absolutely miserable," said Harris. It was affecting Skye's scores, which were all over the place: average report cards, stellar standardized exams and no grade above a 60 on a weekly quiz.
Harris and her husband, Larry, had a meeting with the school about the grades, but no one could explain the discrepancies.
"And we decided, OK, you know what, we can do better ourselves," said Harris. After observing how Skye's stress vanished during a family trip to New Mexico, they ordered an accredited homeschool curriculum called K12 and pulled her out of Winthrop.
Harris had nothing but good things to say about the New London school system, which has worked very well for Maia. But, she said, "what works for some kids doesn't work for other kids."
Tuesday, as fifth-graders around the region pull on their backpacks and board school buses, Skye will play and race around the house until her mother gets up. Then they'll have breakfast and, around 8 or 9, school will start.
Skye will sit at a desk in a room with orange walls and a window overlooking a flourishing garden. She'll pull notecards out of the clay pot where her mom leaves her daily tasks, and tackle her schoolwork in whatever order works for her, as long as she gets it all done.
She won't be the only one staying home. There are many local homeschool families, several of which meet each Tuesday as part of the Christian homeschooling group CHOOSE CT.
CHOOSE meets at local parks, where kids play and socialize and parents - about 25 of them, said Harris - share the joys and frustrations of homeschooling.
The group is also an important part of the routine for Heather Medic, who homeschoolers her 8- and 5-year-old boys in Waterford. They met with CHOOSE and another local homeschooling group last week at Mohegan Park in Norwich, and "everyone (was) kind of humming because it's the first week of school," said Medic.
Medic said homeschool for her family - a curriculum with lots of field trips to do things like determining the sex of crabs, frequent trips to the library, a co-op to learn things like drama and creative writing, and a classroom set aside for school work - is different from what other families might experience.
The back-to-school routine will be different, too. Although some lessons, like guitar and typing and math, have continued at a relaxed pace over the summer, the start of the school year will bring a stricter schedule and extracurricular activities such as judo and soccer.
Although school for the Medic family officially begins on Sept. 8, "we kind of don't stop," said Medic.
She said the boys are actually looking forward to the beginning of school.
And for Skye?
She said Sunday she's just "happy that I have no homework."
"It's better than public schools. You do really well, mom," she said.
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text: DOVER, Del. (AP) A contractor dumped a mountain of dirt about two stories high and 100 yards long next to an interstate bridge over several years, so much that it may have moved the ground and caused the bridge to tilt, state officials said Wednesday.The Interstate 495 bridge, a major East Coast thoroughfare traveled by 90,000 vehicles daily, was closed Monday when engineers determined that bridge support columns were leaning. Officials aren't sure when the bridge will reopen to traffic.The contractor, James Thomas Jr., said he was working with state officials to remove the dirt from the site, which he was allowed to use under an arrangement with a company that leases land. Dump trucks removed dirt Wednesday for a third day.Engineers suspect the weight of the dirt caused the ground underneath the bridge to shift. Four pairs of the bridge's support columns were tilting toward the pile of dirt."I really feel bad about what happened," said Thomas, 60. "I have absolutely no idea what happened, I really don't. … I'm not a structural engineer. I'm not a bridge engineer."The DuPont Co. owns the land where the mountain of dirt is located and leases it out to a materials handing company called Port Contractors Inc., which in turn, has an arrangement for Thomas to store dirt on the site.Experts were still trying to determine exactly how big the pile of dirt was. The bridge will remain closed until engineers figure out how to brace it and make it safe."I think anybody with an engineering background would look at that and say, 'Here's your problem; this is something you need to deal with immediately,'" said Delaware Transportation Secretary Shailen Bhatt.He said transportation officials did not know about the dirt mound until Monday, when engineers visited the bridge in response to a report received late last week. That report came from an engineer with a private company who was in the area on an unrelated project and saw cracking in the soil around the dirt pile. The engineer then spotted the leaning columns and contacted the transportation agency.Officials said they were examining aerial photographs in an effort to ascertain how long the dirt mound has been there."In 2012, there was some stuff out there but not very much; in 2013, a little more," Bhatt said. "Right now obviously there's a lot more dirt under there."


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A Nice Quiet Chat with Christian Bale
In which the most ardent actor of his generation speaks of starving for his art, falling asleep during scenes, and why John Connor—not Christian Bale—bears the lion's share of the blame for that infamous explosion on the set of 'Terminator Salvation'
He slips into the room without fanfare, rumpled and unshaven, blue hoodie, tan pants, black sneakers, raybans. the shoulders are slumped, the hands buried in the marsupial pocket of the hoodie. Nothing to see here. Did Christian Bale stop to jack a Santa Monica liquor store on his way over to Shutters on the Beach He walks slowly, on his heels, toward the terrace. He does not look right, at the couple taking coffee, or left, at the only other person in the lounge this morning. When I stand, he points at me, or my table, or my general area—still without turning to look at me, his eyes fid on the terrace in front of him—and in his low English accent asks, "We doin' this here or what"
Click here to listen to audio of Bale's epic onset blowup.
What is this Petulance Efficiency Both Christian Bale detests interviews, on the predictable grounds that his offscreen life is nobody's business, but also because he thinks the whole enterprise of moviestar "journalism"—the appetite for it, as well as the sating of that appetite—corrosive to acting and storytelling. It encourages people to look for the wrong things.
This opener—"here or what"—is less interesting for what it is than for what it skips—the part where we shake hands and say hello and I thank him for taking the time, and he says, "Don't mention it," and…smiles. Or something. Let's just get through this, right Now he looks at me. Or at least faces me. I can't see his eyes behind the RayBans and won't at any point today, because he doesn't take them off. I walk over, offer up my name and my hand. After a moment, he takes it. Neither limp nor manly, the shake. Al dente, more like. He points his chin at the sundeck. "How 'bout out there" Right.
On the deck, he sits in shadow (makes it harder for Skynet's aerial searchanddestroy robots), his posture hunched. The hands remain in the pouch, emerging only when needed for the purpose of sipping decaffeinated coffee. (To waiter: "This _is _decaf, right 'Cause I go _crazy _if…") He answers a great number of questions thusly: "Yeah. Right." These yeahrights are most often preceded by a blank stillness, though occasionally by a flubberylipped exhalation that falls somewhere on the gestural spectrum between eye rolling and expectoration.
I ask if I can tape, he says sure, and I'm reaching for the recorder when I notice the mondo BandAid on his left index finger. He shrugs, makes a sawing motion over the finger with his other hand, matteroffactly says, "Cut off the tip." A kitchen accident, I guess, and am about to move on when it occurs to me: At some point we're going to talk about his howling fourminute profanirant at the director of photography on the set of Terminator Salvation last summer—the one that went viral (in both its unabridged and danceremix versions) after hitting the Web in early February. Of course we are. He knows it. I know it. By way of going there, and in the spirit of just getting through it, I muster a saccharine Stuart Smalley voice and ask if the wound was "really an accident" and if he "has anger." He says, "Nah," but the explanation—and much of what he says for the next few minutes—is so mumblyquiet and sluggishly reserved that only later, when transcribing, do I register the explanation: "motorcycle accident." Turns out Christian Bale had the tip of his finger surgically reattached several days prior, after lopping it off in a bike crash.
**Please tell us Terminator Salvation is going to rock. Please tell us the title represents what this fourth installment will do for the franchise. **
Look, I hate to throw people under the bus for making movies I don't think are very good. But for Salvation to be considered with any legitimacy, you have to throw number three [Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines] under the bus. It began to spoof the whole thing. To me, that was a sign that the franchise was dead, the mythology was finished.
**You rescued the Batman franchise from spoof by giving us a dark, even dislikable Bruce Wayne. Is Christian Bale now the goto guy when an action franchise needs a booster shot of serious **
Look, that's laughable. How serious can a movie about timetraveling robots be You want it to be cool and fun.
Don't do that. Don't apologize for being a serious guy. You're the first actor playing Batman to understand that he's as anarchic and freakish as his enemies.
It's true. I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for that. But this is a movie about timetraveling robots. I guess I'm always wary of this bullshit where people are makin' it sound like what you do is far more impressive than it actually is. Everyone always tells you that you're the only one that can do this or that role right, and if you say no, they go to somebody else and tell them that they're the only one that can do it right. But when they're talking to you, you're always the Best Actor of Your Generation.
**Actually, GQ has determined that you are the ThirdBest Actor of Your Generation. **
Thank you.
So is that how [Terminator director] McG sold you on the project By dubbing you TBAOYG
At first they wanted me to play another character. I read the script and was like, _Nah. _But McG, who had a fear of flying, flew to England to meet me. He still didn't convince me. I was very open with him and said that I hadn't seen anything he had done before that justified him being the guy to make this. But I've always been grateful for people giving me that opportunity to do things I've never done before, and I'm always for people transforming themselves. But without the script there, there was no way in hell this could work. Ultimately, McG came back and wanted me to play the Connor role. But the Connor role was small. I said, "This guy has no real role here."
**How can that be **
Exactly. The Connors are the story. But then I was in Hong Kong on the very last week of shooting The Dark Knight. I had been to some teahouse where this local guide insisted I drink this tea he'd made. I don't know if he'd spiked it, but within half an hour I turned to my wife and said, "Eh, I kind of feel like doing this." So I called McG up, said, "If we can get a new script, then yeah, let's go for Connor." I felt good about it, because we really did have a lot of time. And then…ffff__uck, writers' strike. I learned a lesson then about movies like The Terminator and Batman. Most people assume that if you're risking that amount of money, you don't begin until you're completely ready. In fact, that's what they do only with the lowerbudget movies. With the bigger ones, the ones that keep the studios afloat, they have to release it on a certain date. In my naïveté, I thought, Of course we'll push back filming. No. Ain't a possibility. And that strike kept going on, and we were getting less and less time to get it together. In the end, it was a film experience unlike any I'd had before. A real ballstothewall kind of effort.
**So who is John Connor **
Well, he's not a freak like Bruce Wayne. There's nothing pathological about him. He has a burden. He knows he's to be the savior of mankind. J.C., right In early versions of the script, they had all these weird paganistic amulets and talismans all over me. I told 'em to get rid of that crap. John Connor is all about utility: "There is no fate but what you make." As far as playing him, I thought of it mainly in terms of his mom. He's got this mad dog of a mom who everybody thinks is crazy but whose prophecies turn out to be true. I felt that a lot of her ferocity and recklessness had to be passed down.
Would you have unleashed the Rant as intensely, if at all, had you been playing someone other than John Connor
** **Of course not. And it wouldn't have happened if we hadn't been playing that scene, for Christ's sake, between John Connor and his wife, which is probably the most intense one in the movie.
**I've been wondering if you're so Methody that when you kept yelling, What don't you fucking understand the question between the lines was_Don't you fucking understand that by walking in front of the lights, you're putting the survival of the human race at stake_ **
[an irritated sigh] I'd definitely say that that guy who was yelling was at least half John Connor, and the rest was Christian Bale.
Save for a few British inflections in those four minutes of sustained screaming, the Rant occurred in your Americanized John Connor accent. Did you use that voice offcamera throughout filming
I do that because I'm just not very good at switching between two voices. If I had the talent to turn it on and off on cue, I would. But I don't, so I have to maintain. Otherwise I'm aware that I'm "doing an accent" whenever I'm filming, instead of just speaking. Hey, listen, I don't make any excuses. None of it is excusable. You know, I feel I already said everything about this that needs to be said when I called up the radio station.
[Four days after the Rant (just audio, regrettably) became public, Bale phoned the Kevin & Bean show on KROQ in Los Angeles. After telling the hosts that during an otherwise "miserable" week, their Rantrelated riffing had made him laugh, Bale launched into a tenminute apology so abject that it might better be described as an autovivisection.]
In a way, your apology was as intense as the original tirade. You nailed that apology, man.
Oh, really I didn't listen to it.
It was like, _What don't you fucking understand I'm APOLOGIZING! _
Yeah. Right.
Do people now regard you differently You know, _Oooh, there's Christian Bale. Careful! _
Come on. No.
**What's your favorite Christian Bale Rant dance remix or mashup **
A friend sent me one. They did a bloody good job! I've gotta say, what a great impulse, you know To take something ugly like that and make it into a dance That's a wonderful thing.
**Have you seen the mashup with you and the kid who's just come from the dentist **
**You will go home after this interview and plug in "Christian Bale David Dentist" on YouTube. **
Hey, look, this was not a little kid. This was a fullgrown man, much bigger than me. There was no bullying going on. He was capable of dealing with it. He did. We reconciled within half an hour.
You know, I thought you'd look…bigger. Did you bulk up for Terminator
No, I'm roughly the same size in the movie that I am right now. I felt John Connor needed the wiriness of a soldier.
**The bodybuilding and unbuilding you've done for your roles is alarming—the former all the more so for its being accomplished without any animal protein. **
Actually, I'm in and out of the vegetarianism now. But yeah, the majority of the building up you're talking about was done when I was still a vegetarian.
When did you fall off the wagon
Just after I'd completed American Psycho [for which Bale, as the preening sociopath Patrick Bateman, got furiously ripped].
**Dietary reasons Or something to do with the character **
I was up in Toronto and went to see that movie Life Is Beautiful. By myself. And when I came out, I had a craving for blood unlike anything I had ever experienced since I decided to go vegetarian at the age of 7. It was a compulsion. It was undeniable. I went to several restaurants, one right after the other, and got the biggest, bloodiest steaks I could get my hands on. It was the first time I had tasted flesh in almost twenty years.
**Life Is Beautiful. **
**That makes sense. **
**You once said that if you didn't commit the way you do, acting wouldn't feel like a "job." Was that the kind of winking acknowledgment movie stars make about the absurdity of making millions to, you know, dress up in a cape Or was it something more earnest—that you need to endure not just to play a role correctly but to test yourself **
Definitely the second one. Look, I was doing that long before I could ever have had any guilt about getting paid. I learned a long time ago that if I don't commit completely, I'm not very…content. And yeah, it's bizarre but true: The easier the role, the more they pay you for it. I'm into a realm now where it doesn't matter what you do, you don't deserve to get paid that. It's fair, because if you're not, someone else is gettin' it—and they didn't do what you did for it. But do you deserve it Hell no.
You once described what you did for The Machinist—starving off a third of your body—as "calming." Can you elaborate
I guess you just sort of have to focus on other…pleasures than food. So you focus on things of the mind. It really is almost mind control. And I found that very calming. Usually, you're getting nervous energy from what you're taking into your body. Since I wasn't putting anything in, I was left in a lowenergy state. I didn't even have the energy to sleep much at all, if that doesn't sound too strange. But that absence of energy was replaced with an ability to focus in a very slow and steady way for hours and hours. Physically, I was incredibly relad—I really didn't have a choice—but mentally very acute. It was very nice to be in that state while it lasted. My family enjoyed that one as well, after they got over the horror of looking at me.
**You enjoyed it because… **
It was uncluttered. The Machinist changed me. I learned that I really enjoy, literally, not saying a damned word for days at a time, except for what was in the scene. Whole days of…nothing. Just…standing still. I know a lot of people found it bizarre, because they'd be standing right next to me thinking, Why aren't we talking What's going on Hours would pass and I wouldn't say a word, not even to Brad [Anderson], the director. And then it would be like, All right, I think I heard "Action." Talk now. The purity of that, the satisfaction. Now I fall asleep on sets all the time. I've done it in the middle of scenes where they've had to shake me because I've missed my cues.
**Really **
In Batman Begins, in the first scene I had with Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman, I fell asleep. In the scene, I was meant to be waking up, so I laid down and just fell asleep. And I didn't hear "Action." So Michael and Morgan were talking, and I was supposed to join in. I woke up with Michael Caine poking me in the ribs and going, [pitchperfect Michael Caine accent] "Look at 'at! 'E's bloody fallen asleep, 'asn't 'e 'E's bloody fallen asleep!"
sleeping on the set of Batman Begins, screaming on the set of Terminator Salvation; there's a similar polarity between the earlymorning Bale of our first interview and the lateafternoon Bale who shows up in the same spot the next day. Yesterday, the skulking fugitive. Today there are no RayBans. He's shaved. His skin is taut and braced, the lapidary facets of his face standing out in bold relief. His clothes are freshpressed and cut to fit. Even a man just rescued after thirty years on a desert island could tell you: That there's a movie star.
He approaches, makes eye contact, smiles. Today the only topic Bale won't brook is his alleged assault on his sister and mother the day before The Dark Knight premiered in London last July—the same month he delivered the Rant while shooting Terminator Salvation in New Mexico. He cuts off the subject with a casual chop of the hand. It is worth noting, though, that verbal abuse can fall under the legal definition of assault in England—and that the complaint was subsequently dropped for lack of evidence. On all other subjects, Bale holds forth amiably on everything from his childhood film acting to his abhorrence for photo sessions.
But not before duly (and yes, intensely) apologizing for being fifteen minutes late. ("No excuses…just shabby…sorry, really…") By this point, I've listened to the Christian Bale Rant so many times that its capacity to appall has thinned; it now registers as opera. My favorite lyric, twice sung (both for emphasis and to overcome the oddness of issuing such a sentiment in a hateful shriek): You're a nice guy. Shouting just won't do, not here, so I lock into those black eyes and assume a confidential tone.
**You're a nice guy, Christian. You're a nice guy. But seriously, man, you and me, we're fuckin' done professionally. **
[Bale issues a half smile and a nod to acknowledge that the shot is legal.]
**So……outside of your roles, do you have a history of putting yourself in situations where you have to test yourself physically or even court danger **
Definitely. Though the one that stands out to me wasn't physically demanding or dangerous. One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later. Deep into the woods. It was terrifying. And I wasn't allowed to look behind me, no matter what noises I heard. That was the point. That thing. The fear. To go into some deep place, a well of fear, that you've never been to before and that you didn't know the way out of. Not looking behind, not turning around, just going deeper and deeper into those woods. I always enjoyed that.
That's the word Enjoy
I learned something about myself, didn't I
**What **
That I don't want to be comforted. That I want to be able to face the hell I'm in.
On its face, that's patently unbelievable. I mean, come on: an 8yearold And yet that impulse was fully realized in your performance in Empire of the Sun, which was when you were…
Your childhood film acting blows Haley Joel Osment's out of the water. How did you feel about it
Extreme. It was always either "I'm done with this, I'm gonna quit" or just loving every second of it. But even hating it the way I did, when I did, indicated to me that I was destined to keep doing it.
**Huh **
Because feeling that strongly about something—it signaled to me that it was something I needed to pay attention to. You know, when you first get recognized by anybody, it's a very uncomfortable thing. I really used to just try to be invisible. A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.
The pencil, the orange. [The boy Bale famously responded to questions at a publicity event for Empire of the Sun in Paris by silently stabbing a pencil into an orange and then fleeing.]
Yeah. Right. But you know what Who gives a crap Who doesn't have bad times Nobody can stand whiners.
**Back to the woods. That parallels what you've done for your most committed roles. The Machinist. Rescue Dawn. You've taken it all the way just…to see if you can **
In part.
**Were you enjoying your fear during or after you were in the woods **
So for that 8yearold boy it was two things at once:_ I am afraid and that is unpleasant; at the same time, I am enjoying this. _
But it was also I am staying. I am not running. There's a beautiful epitaph on the gravestone of Melvin Purvis, the FBI agent I play in Public Enemies [the story of J. Edgar Hoover's pursuit of John Dillinger, played by Johnny Depp, which will be released in July]. All that man went through, the gun battles, being a highpriority target of underworld figures… One time he was in Al Capone's hotel room, meeting with him, and bullets started flying through the window, the two of them duckin' down, firing back, looking at each other, and Capone says to him, "They after you, or they after me" And neither knew. True story. So many situations like that the man went through. And on his gravestone it's written—in Latin, so I had his son translate it for me—"I was often afraid, but I never ran." Back in the day, he would admit to being scared. It was a bravery in and of itself just to admit that in that era. The papers called him Nervous Purvis. But that's exactly what I was enjoying in those woods as a kid. I am afraid for my life, but I will not run and I will not look back. I will just go deeper. Until I come through.
**It's funny. The impression a person gets listening to the Rant is that you're the biggest prima donna of all time. Maybe you are. But you're also a Hollywood leading man who's comfortable playing a supporting part or letting someone else be the most charismatic guy on the screen, as in 3:10 to Yuma. **
Yeah, Russell [Crowe] and I had the same amount of screen time, but he was definitely the scene stealer, and I have to say I enjoyed that. I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention. And you know, as Russell's character starts to understand what my character is up to, the weight of our characters, I guess you might call it, starts to shift. He remains the alpha guy, but he also starts to appreciate the quest I'm on and to realize that it's going to kill me—that in the end I'm more of a lunatic than he is. I'm a supporting role in Public Enemies, too. Purvis was important in bringing down Dillinger, but it's the story of Dillinger.
**Do you think in terms of whether you're entertaining an audience when you're working out a character Or do you think of it purely from within the skin of the character **
It's always from the inside out for me. You know, there are movies where actors aren't characters but movie stars, being cool beyond belief throughout the whole movie. That is what it is. And we reveal ourselves when we act, very often without noticing. But if I can manage to do a character without showing anything of myself, then that's the ultimate goal for me. No leakage. Hey, you know, I'm really startin' to sound like a wanker, talking about acting and all this Can we stop this
**That antimoviestar sentiment is funny coming from someone who's now carrying two of the biggest actionmovie franchises on the planet. **
Yeah, I'm perverse. I know.
**Which preBrando, preMethod actors do you most admire **
I don't have any answer for that. I watch so few movies. I didn't get into this because I love movies. I got into it because I love putting myself in other people's shoes and investigating.
It's not the product, it's the immersion.
**Have you ever considered comedy **
_[defensively] _I think American Psycho is a very funny movie.
**Right. Let's end on that. **
No, wait—can I say something I want to say that I've got this long history of just, I can't stand havin' my photo taken. Can't fuckin' stand it. Which is why in half the photos you see of me, I look like I was gettin' a tetanus injection when they took the picture. Okay And there was a [fashion] campaign during The Dark Knight in which they used me, in which I had no fuckin' sayso. I would never have done that had I had any fuckin' sayso.
**Okay. **
This campaign—it wasn't Batman. It was Bruce Wayne. I said, "Look, that's Bruce Wayne in that suit. He's no different than Christian Bale in a suit except for he's got stuff, goo, in his hair, okay" I just want to go on record as saying I did nothing for that. In fact every time I saw it anywhere, I felt nauseous.
**Okay. **
What I'm tellin' you is that I will not ever be a model. If I'm ever modeling, you'll know I really fucking need the money. Okay
Andrew Corsello, a GQ correspondent, profiled entrepreneur Elon Musk in February 2009.