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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) – Teams on the ground and in the air rescued dozens of hikers who were stranded in an Arizona canyon after heavy rains flooded trails, authorities said.
Forty to 50 adults and children were stranded Saturday along various sections of Bear Canyon northeast of Tucson as the waters rushed down mountainsides, the Pima County Sheriff's Department said.
A series of 911 calls from hikers sparked a rescue operation involving teams on the ground and in a helicopter,
The first group of hikers was led out of the canyon in the Catalina Mountains in the late afternoon and the last group well after dark, deputy Tom Peine told the Arizona Daily Star.
Some of the hikers said they were stranded when a river swelled to a raging torrent in a matter of minutes.
'I've never seen anything like this,' hiker Jesse Boyd told KGUN-TV. 'I've gotten caught in rain out here, but nothing to the point where I had to be rescued.'
With some hikers, rescuers used a technique that involved roping them together with flotation devices to help get them through high water. Some of the hikers were flown out by helicopter.
'(A) rescue team member was behind us with a hand on that flotation device,' Michael Rolland told KVOA-TV after being aided by rescuers. 'They strung a rope across, and so we had to grab the rope and sidestep across the river.'
Peine said that the hikers might not have realized that rains at higher elevations could cause canyon flooding long after the down pour ends.

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Actor Lou Myers, best known for his role as ornery restaurant owner Mr. Gaines on the television series "A Different World," has died.
Tonia McDonald of Myers' nonprofit, Global Business Incubation Inc., said Myers died Tuesday night at Charleston Area Medical Center in West Virginia. She said he was 77. McDonald said Wednesday that Myers had been in and out of the hospital since before Christmas and collapsed recently. An autopsy was planned.
A native of Chesapeake, W.Va., Myers had returned to the state and lived in the Charleston area.
His TV credits included "NYPD Blue," "E.R.," "The Cosby Show," "Touched by an Angel," and more. He also appeared in a number of films, including "Tin Cup," "How Stella Got Her Groove Back," "Wedding Planner" and more.
"A Different World" ran from 1987-93 and originally starred Lisa Bonet from "Cosby" fame. Myers said he owed his introduction to Hollywood to Bill Cosby.
Myers also appeared on Broadway including "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" African American Style and "Oprah Winfrey's The Color Purple."
In 2005, the Appalachian Education Initiative listed Myers as one of 50 "Outstanding Creative Artists" from the state of West Virginia and featured him in their coffee table book Art & Soul.
He began singing jazz and blues with the touring company of "Negro Music in Vogue," according to a biography provided by McDonald.
His Cabaret show has been acclaimed in Berlin, Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and New York, as well as Los Angeles at the Roosevelt Hotel.
Myers was chairman of Global Business Incubation that helps urban small businesses and chairman of the Lou Myers Scenario Motion Picture Institute/Theatre.
He won a NAACP "Best Actor" award for playing the Stool Pigeon in "King Hedley II," a play by August Wilson.


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College Football Nation: Another successful Manhattan Project
Bill Snyder is a miracle worker.
It's been more than 20 years since he first took over as head coach at Kansas State, so it's faded a little from memory, but in 1989 when he arrived in Manhattan there was no greater dead-end place in all of college football. There were three coaches in four years before he arrived in 1989, and they had a combined record of 3-40-1. The Wildcats didn't win a game in 1987 or 1988.
There had been four winning seasons since 1934.
At the time Snyder was hired, only one program in the entire sport had lost 500 games, and of course it was K-State.
His team went 1-10 in 1989. But then came 5-6 and 7-4, and beginning in 1993 Kansas State won nine or more games for eight straight years and 10 of 11. Included in that string were four straight 11-win seasons from 1997-2000, plus two more in 2002 and 2003, and wins in the Fiesta Bowl in 1997 and the Cotton Bowl in 2000.
Yes, included in those remarkable years were some weak nonconference schedules, but Snyder's Wildcats have owned Missouri, Iowa State and Kansas, have beaten Oklahoma seven times, hold a 4-2 record against Texas, and though losing 14 times to Nebraska did beat the Cornhuskers five times before they bolted for the Big Ten.
Barry Switzer, the legendary coach of Oklahoma, once said of Snyder, "He's not the coach of the year, he's not the coach of the decade, he's the coach of the century."
After the run of 11-win seasons, however, came a slide, and after losing seasons in 2004 and 2005 Snyder stepped down. The game, seemingly, had passed Snyder by.
Ron Prince was hired as his replacement, and the Wildcats had three mediocre seasons. He was fired in November of 2008.
Enter Snyder. Again. Proving the game had not passed him by.
First came 6-6, then 7-6. But last year the Wildcats went 10-3. This year, they're 4-0, and it's not a hollow 4-0.
On Saturday night, perhaps lost a little bit as No. 2 LSU struggled, fabled Notre Dame delivered a defensive smackdown on Michigan, and Florida State proved mighty once again, the miracle worker delivered one of his masterpieces.
Kansas State went on the road and beat Oklahoma. The Sooners started the season on the short list of teams with a chance to win the national championship, and last year throttled Kansas State by 41 points. But with another year to develop his team, Snyder went to Norman and got revenge. His Wildcats not only knocked the Sooners from title contention, but showed that they're ready to be taken with the same seriousness his teams a decade ago merited.
And they did it the old fashioned way, by ramming the ball down their opponents' throats. Kansas State gained 213 rushing yards, led by John Hubert's 130. Meanwhile, it allowed Oklahoma just 88 yards on the ground, and while Landry Jones gained yardage through the air Kansas State limited the Sooners' one-time Heisman hopeful to just one touchdown pass.
"We had a chip on our shoulder," said Hubert. "They came to my house (last year) and they kind of embarrassed us. We just wanted to come out and stay on them and keep pounding them, keep pounding them, keep pounding them until the best team won."
What Snyder has done, building Kansas State into a consistent power once, and putting the program in position to be powerful again, is the stuff of legend.
Snyder, who didn't become a head coach until he was 49 years old, will never amass the gaudy win totals of coaches who started at a much younger age, the 300-plus of men like Bobby Bowden, Bear Bryant, Eddie Robinson and Joe Paterno. But what he's done is, in some respects, more impressive.
None, not even Bowden at Florida State, had to deal with what Snyder faced. None of them had to deal with decades of disastrous losing leading to such apathy that, according to a 1989 article in Sports Illustrated, less than 3,000 of Kansas State's nearly 20,000 students bought season tickets at the time.
None of them had to deal with the humiliation that being associated with such ineptitude brings.
And none of them had to deal with the fact that their school is located in Kansas, a state that not only doesn't produce anywhere near the high school talent of the South, Rust Belt, Southwest and West, but doesn't hold nearly the attraction to high school seniors of four years living, well, just about anywhere else.
Bill Snyder did one of the toughest things a coach can ever do, building something from nothing. And he did it in a place as difficult to build that something as any.
The man, in coaching terms, is a miracle worker.
What We Learned
There was a lot to digest on Saturday night, almost all of it happening at once.
Oklahoma proved unworthy of its preseason billing. LSU showed surprising vulnerability in a two-point win over Auburn. Florida State garnered its most meaningful win in a while, meaning it should be among the unbeatens for quite a while. Notre Dame demonstrated the kind of defense in whipping Michigan that makes a team competitive against just about anyone, and in the process announced it was putting its longtime rivalry with the Wolverines on hold. And Oregon was flat-out scary good against Arizona, on both sides of the ball.
But what stands out above it all is the absolute horror show that's happening at Arkansas.
The Razorbacks are a disaster.
Once on the short list of teams capable of challenging LSU and Alabama in the SEC, Arkansas lost at home to Rutgers on Saturday. Taken on its own, the defeat wasn't catastrophic - the Scarlet Knights have actually shown that they're pretty good, sitting at 4-0 and ranked 23rd in the AP poll.
But the loss can't be taken on its own.
It came a week after the Razorbacks, expected to pose a threat to top-ranked 'Bama, laid down in a 52-0 loss to the Crimson Tide. And that came a week after Arkansas lost to Louisiana-Monroe.
That's three losses in three weeks, all at home, by a team that was ranked as high as No. 3 late last season and reached No. 8 this season after its opening week win over Jacksonville State.
"Do I feel that we, at times, gave up out there? Absolutely," Arkansas quarterback Tyler Wilson, who missed the game with a head injury, said after the loss to Alabama. "As a leader, it sucks to see people not do their jobs."
Amid it all, leadership has proven to be a mess. Not necessarily the leadership Wilson alluded to - from the players - but from above.
First there was the Bobby Petrino fiasco, which played out last April and doesn't need to be rehashed. Suffice it to say, the man lied about an affair, and paid for it with his job. When he was fired, John L. Smith was brought in on an interim basis, and Smith has been nothing but a disaster.
The week of the Alabama game, he filed for bankruptcy. Last week he gave a bizarre press conference in which he implored the gathered media to smile before he took any questions - it's since been reported that Smith's brother died that morning.
And this week, during a speech to boosters on Monday, he said, "I'm asking you as fans, don't give up on those players, don't give up on us. It's our program, it's a state of Alabama program. It's not one individual's program, so hang in there, we're all part of it."
Yes, he said Alabama. Not Arkansas.
On top of the off-field gaffes, the results speak for themselves regarding his on-field work.
Arkansas is a program that had lots of promise this autumn. Instead, it's in free-fall.
Game of the Week
There's no titanic clash, nothing that features a team chasing the crystal football against even another ranked team.
The only game featuring two ranked team is Michigan State at Ohio State, which essentially features one team that got whipped by Notre Dame against one that's struggled against mediocre opponents and is barred from postseason participation.
There are potential road traps for South Carolina and Florida State, but the game with the most intrigue features seemingly revitalized Texas traveling north to Stillwater to take on Oklahoma State.
It's an opportunity for the Longhorns to demonstrate that they merit the national attention they mysteriously lost after Colt McCoy & Crew fell to Alabama in the BCS title game at the end of the 2009 season.
Texas is 3-0 so far, and ranked 12th in the AP poll. The 'Horns throttled Ole Miss in Oxford, and their 49.3 points per game ranks seventh nationally. But Ole Miss is bad, as are Wyoming and New Mexico.
Oklahoma State, though its loss at Arizona showed it's not nearly the team it was last year, is a different level of competition. The Cowboys lead the country with 62.3 points per game, and their 686.7 yards per game are also tops in the country, meaning the Texas defense will be tested.
If the Longhorns are able to get a quality road victory, it will make the next two weeks - home against West Virginia and in Dallas to play Oklahoma - pretty interesting. If Texas loses, however, the conclusion will be that they're still not ready to return to prime time.
"I thought we did some really positive and good things that should give us a view of who we want to be in the future at Ole Miss," Texas coach Mack Brown said on Monday. "That's why I'm so excited about this weekend - to see if that's for real."
Oklahoma State, meanwhile, can begin to show that the loss to Arizona was an aberration, like its loss at Iowa State was last year. By beating Texas, the Cowboys can creep back into the rankings. And with games against TCU, Kansas State, West Virginia and Oklahoma ahead, they can demonstrate that it's them and not Texas that's worthy of the spotlight.
"I think we've got a pretty good football team," Oklahoma State offensive coordinator Todd Monken said on Monday. "I don't know where we will end up when the year is over, but I think we have got a pretty good team."
My Top 10
1. Alabama (4-0): Merrily, they roll along.
2. LSU (4-0): The Tigers get a mulligan, but only one.
3. Oregon (4-0): Unbelievably, the Ducks were out of sync in a 54-0 win.
4. Florida State (4-0): All that stands between the 'Noles and 11-0 is a letdown.
5. Georgia (4-0): Oct. 6 at South Carolina is shaping up as a monster game.
6. South Carolina (4-0): See above.
7. West Virginia (3-0): The first real test is next week at Texas.
8. Stanford (3-0): An extra week after beating USC will help against Washington.
9. Kansas State (4-0): The real deal.
10. Notre Dame (4-0): The defense makes the Irish legit.
Eric Avidon can be reached at 508-626-3809 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @ericavidon.


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Twenty years ago, the fastest Internet backbone links were 1.5Mbps. Today we argue whether that's a fast enough minimum to connect home users. In 1993, 1.3 million machines were connected to the Internet. By this past summer, that number had risen to 769 million and this only counts systems that have DNS names. The notion of a computer that is not connected to the Internet is patently absurd these days.
But all of this rapid progress is going to slow in the next few years. The Internet will soon be sailing in very rough seas, as it's about to run out of addresses, needing to be gutted and reconfigured for continued growth in the second half of the 2010s and beyond. Originally, the idea was that this upgrade would happen quietly in the background, but over the past few years, it has become clear that the change from the current Internet Protocol version 4, which is quickly running out of addresses, to the new version 6 will be quite a messy affair.
Legacy problems
Across the computing industry, we spend enormous amounts of money and effort on keeping older, "legacy" systems running. The examples range from huge and costly to small and merely annoying: planes circle around in holding patterns burning precious fuel because air traffic control can't keep up on systems that are less powerful than a smartphone; WiFi networks don't reach their top speeds because an original 802.11(no letter), 2Mbps system could show up—you never know. So when engineers dream, we dream of leaving all of yesterday's technology behind and starting from scratch. But such clean breaks are rarely possible.
For instance, the original 10 megabit Ethernet specification allows for 1500-byte packets. Filling up 10Mbps takes about 830 of those 1500-byte packets. Then Fast Ethernet came along, which was 100Mbps, but the packet size remained the same so that 100Mbps ethernet gear could be hooked up to 10Mbps ethernet equipment without compatibility issues. Fast Ethernet needs 8300 packets per second to fill up the pipe. Gigabit Ethernet needs 83,000 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet needs almost a million packets per second (well, 830,000).
For each faster Ethernet standard, the switch vendors need to pull out even more stops to process an increasingly outrageous numbers of packets per second, running the CAMs that store the forwarding tables at insane speeds that demand huge amounts of power. The need to connect antique NE2000 cards meant sticking to 1500 bytes for Fast Ethernet, and then the need to talk to those rusty Fast Ethernet cards meant sticking to 1500 bytes for Gigabit Ethernet, and so on. At each point, the next step makes sense, but the entire journey ends up looking irrational.
The problem in the middle
Of course, change does manage to happen. We went from 10Mbps to 10Gbps Ethernet, from wired to wireless, and from a Web that was barely able to show blinking text to one running all manners of applications. We even gained the DNS and TCP congestion control only in the late 1980s. But the reason we were able to change all of these technologies is that they happen either above or below the Internet Protocol in the network stack.
Network protocols are built as "stacks" where a number of layers each provide a part of the required functionality. The famous OSI reference model has seven layers, but the TCP/IP stack has only four. Starting from the bottom and moving up, the (data)link layer knows how to send packets through cables or the air; the network layer knows about routing and addressing, allowing packets to find their way through the network; and the transport layer makes multi-packet communications work, and finally the application layer makes applications work over the network. These layers map to OSI layers 2, 3, 4, and 7, respectively. Each of these layers has many different protocols to choose from, except the network layer, which has only IP. Hence it looks like the waist in an hourglass.
Ethernet operates at the datalink layer (and also on OSI layer 1, the physical layer), and supports complex networks of its own, but Ethernet networks are nonetheless limited in size and scope, and can be upgraded with relative ease. The transport layer, where TCP and UDP live, has some upgradability issues, but in principle, routers don't look beyond the network layer, so they don't care if a packet is TCP, UDP or some other *P. This means that changing to a new transport protocol just involves updating the end systems that send and receive the packets—the routers in the middle don't care. (Firewalls do care, hence the complications in practice.) The same is true for application protocols like HTTP, FTP, or SMTP. If your browser decides to start downloading webpages using FTP, that's between the browser and the remote server; the rest of the network doesn't care.
But in contrast to the other layers of the stack, IP is everywhere. The source of the packet needs to create a valid IP packet, which all the routers along the way must process in order to send the packet down the right path. And the destination must be able to decode the IP packet. So changing the Internet Protocol means changing all hosts and all routers.


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Before the Mississippi and Alabama primaries, Mitt Romney said Rick Santorum was at the "desperate end of his campaign." Anderson speaks with Romney's adviser about whether that opinion still holds, after Santorum's wins in the south.
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First of all, I wanted to share my creative outside of the box side. When I was playing with owl bits I suddenly saw a reindeer. Yup...a reindeer from an owl set. I just had to go with it.
1) I began by outlining my card with the embossed square (see tutorial here). Then I stamped the circle strip from Faux Ribbon on the top and the bottom.
2) Next I stamped my owl outline and cut it. Then I stamped the eyes and punched them with a 1/2 circle punch (see here). I also stamped the owl belly (which became a nose).
3) I added pop dots to give dimension to my reindeer. I also cut a few paper strips to make legs.
4) I added the mistletoe from Believe and the Season's Greetings sentiment from Faux Ribbon.
Here is a close up. This reindeer just makes me smile.
-Wise Owl (Urban Design) by PTI
-Believe by PTI
-Faux Ribbon
-Espresso by Ranger
-Noir Black by Palette
-Stamper's Select White by PTI
-Suede Brown Dark by Prism
-Pop dots
After I created my reindeer card I suddenly had an idea to get creative with my nesties. This led to the completion of my next card. I have actually never seen this done before so I wanted to make sure I had photos to show you my process. If there is already a name for this technique please let me know--i'll give credit where credit is due. In the meantime, bare with me as I tell you the "innie" and the "outie" of my lil' owl card.
1) I began making my "innie" medallion (see below for instructions) in the center of my white cardstock. I stamped my owl and coloured him in.
2) Next I masked the medallion with a paper circle and stamped over the cardstock using Polka Dot Basics.
3) Then I adhered my ribbon and stamped my sentiment.
4) I finished the card off with a corner rounder.
When I created this embossed "medallion" I was quite impressed with how it made the perfect focal point on the cardstock. I just knew that my lil owl would fit perfectly.
-Wise Owl (Urban Design) by PTI
-Polka Dot Basics by PTI
-Plum Pudding by PTI
-Stamper's Select White by PTI
-Plum Pudding by PTI
-Noir Black Palette
-Plum Pudding Topnotch Twill
-Standard Circle Nestabilities (both sizes)
-Copic Markers
-Corner Rounder by EK Success
The Innie and the Outie with standard circle nestabilities and wizard
1) Creating the "innie" medallion
Place the LARGEST circle on the bottom edge side up and place the SMALLER circle edge side down.
You'll see that they "hug" each other. Then place the rubber mat underneath the circles and place a scrap piece of paper on top. The scrap on top is necessary if you want to avoid the nestie getting stuck in your plate.
This is how it will turn out. Flip it over to see the other side too. It looks just as cool!
2) Creating the "outie" medallion
Place the SMALLEST circle on the bottom edge side up and place the LARGEST circle edge side down.
Here is a close up for you.
Here is a comparison. Now you probably wonder why I call the innie the innie and the outie the outie. If you have a close look at both of them you will notice that each circle has two close rings. The innie has two rings in the center while the outie has two rings on the outer edge. That's how I came up with the name. Again, don't forget to use the flip side of these for a totally different look. Have fun creating with ALL sorts of shapes (not limited to the circles).
I have not yet tested how well this works with the cuttlebug. I imagine you won't get the same deep embossed look--at least that is my experience using the cuttlebug vs wizard.
Wise Owl Tidbits:
--Some sentiments include: owly? and whootin' hi
--There is a straight line in the set that was created to be used in the empty circle (the one used for the wink) for sleepy eyes.
Don't forget to drop by again to see the announced winners of my Wise Owl sets as well as some fun owl expressions--facial expressions.
Also, I had a question about using other pens instead of sharpies on yesterday's project. I am sure there are other good pens to use with polyshrink but unfortunately I am not sure what else to recommend.
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In 2013 The Rolex 24 is going to see something it has never seen before: a diesel-powered race car.
On Thursday, Mazda North American Operations announced at the Los Angeles Auto Show that the racing version of the 2014 Mazda6 will make its motorsports debut at the Rolex 24 endurance race on January 26-27 in Daytona Beach, Fla.
The Mazda6 race car will be powered by a Mazda Skyactiv-D clean diesel engine and is being developed for the new Grand-Am GX class. This will be the first time a diesel-powered vehicle of any type has ever raced at the Rolex 24. Mazda will be seeking its 24th class win in the American endurance classic, having most recently won in 2008 and 2010.
John Doonan, Motorsports Director for Mazda North American Operations, talked about the new race car.
"We have been eager to announce this car for months, but had to wait until the production car was revealed. The SpeedSource engineering team, working with the Mazda engineers, have been flat out for months on engine development. We're happy to report that the engine is meeting the performance targets for both power and endurance. That means 400+ hp for over 50 hours, with an engine that includes a very long list of production Mazda parts. This is not a pure race engine; it is a production block Skyactiv-D. We're excited about having our newest engine powering our newest car."


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Back Rise 13 3/4"
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The word "curation" in common usage has lost some its meaning. We think of it more in terms of collector, aggregator or disseminator and not as "caretaker" as is its true definition. We future and current archivists and librarians, are all curators of information. We are shepherds and superintendents of data and particularly in the online space, we should be setting the example for proper care.
Anyone who tweets, facebooks, blogs, links, writes, or shares in the online space is similarly a curator of information. A webpage is just like a piece of paper in a library with all accompanying metadata. The shared hyperlink to that paper is both amazing tool and the source of conscientious curation questions.
The new information economy is not based on amassing huge amounts of data but curating and providing context to important, true, interesting, and/or relevant information. A link deserves to be attributed if shared. No brainer right? This is usually accomplished by linking to the original post or page. Equally important, however, is the source of the material – who or whatever lead to it – similarly deserves credit.
I have been ruminating on this idea of late after reading the Curator's Code by Maria Popova. You can visit the original Curator's Code site here and for more mind fodder you can watch, read, read and, for the contrary view, read – links via @brainpicker and Google. Basically, the Code advocates using "via" and "HT" (Hat Tip) with your links to attribute your source if other than the original creator, either a from direct link or a stream-of-finding respectively.
The idea is that just as you attribute an idea you espouse to a person, book or quote, you should also reference from whom – from what curator – you found your item of information (picture, link, article, post etc).
This mostly pertains to Twitter and Facebook but crosses into any social media platform. The system is not perfect and depends on a community that values curation – that esteems the caretakers of information. (ahem: like librarians)
Some automation to this end occurs with Twitter, Facebook and even Pinterest if you re-share a link (retweet, reshare and repin respectively) but there are ways to circumvent it for the less honorable. Instead of relying on the application to make the connection, the act of source attribution ought be a conscious one.
Think about it this way: If you found a really funny or profound image after many hours of research, shared it online and it went viral, wouldn't you want credit for being the "source." Sure the original was out there previously, but you were the one that brought it to light and added context by saying "this is important enough to share" and providing a statement (or more) about the original that give it more meaning – even if that is in the form of a hashtag or "LOL."
Just as you wouldn't state an idea as yours if you got it from someone else, so ought you not retweet or repost without giving credit to the curator who brought the item to your attention. We certainly care about original artistic content but we should be equally careful about how we use and share intellectual content.
I do see the opposing view: Do we cite the finding aide or even library from where we gather our information? Likely not formally. If we are conscientious person, however, we at least thank our supporters and influencers. I see the "via" and "HT" as the responsible and courteous thing to do. For me, I have found a wealth of other good sources (including @brianpicker Popova) because others have properly attributed their tweets or blog musings. I see it like a painting on loan to a museum, the loaning organization is identified — credited — along with the artist and title.
The LIS community should be a the forefront of these types of issues, shaping and setting standards. Besides linking or liking the writings of others, however, I haven't seen a whole lot of original content generated. I am happy to see that both the APA and MLA set guidelines for Twitter attribution but much more is needed to clarify and codify good online citation behavior.
What do you think? Do you use HT and via? Are there more norms that should be established? Or is this a waste of effort?
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Keira Knightley returns in another period costume drama
Keira Knightley's star has been steadily rising. The British actor was introduced to American audiences via her small role as handmaiden to Natalie Portman's Padme in "Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace." She got strong marks for playing Lara in the Masterpiece Theater version of "Doctor Zhivago," showed her swashbuckling side in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" films, and moved smoothly into period pieces with her portrayal of Elizabeth Bennet in "Pride & Prejudice." It was there that she first worked with director Joe Wright, who worked with her in "Atonement" and now in the title role in "Anna Karenina," which opens Friday.
Fans of previous versions of the film or of the Tolstoy novel know that Anna is a complicated character, for whom some cheer while others jeer, as she runs off with a younger man, leaving her older husband.
Knightley admitted that she had mixed feelings about Anna, but that the book still amazes her.
"I approached playing her just by using the novel," she said. "It was weird because I'd read the book when I was in my late teens or early 20s, and I remembered it as being this amazing, sweeping romance. But I read it last summer, just before we started shooting, and I went, 'Oh, this is completely other than I remembered it.' I think that's maybe why it's so extraordinary. You can come at it from different points of your life and you'll see it in a completely different way.
"Tolstoy isn't saying she is an innocent," she added. "He's actually at some points going, 'She is the whore of Babylon, she is everything that is awful.'
"I believe that when Tolstoy first started writing the novel, Anna's husband, Karenin (Jude Law), was meant to be a hero," she said. "It was about this upstanding, wonderful man who had a wife who committed a crime against him. But as he went on writing the novel, he fell in love with Anna, and started seeing things from her point of view. That was something that was very interesting for me and for Joe (Wright). That idea that she's the heroine but the anti-heroine at the same time."
Knightley, 27, who recently became engaged to Klaxons singer-keyboardist James Righton, seems to have done a lot of thinking about love and marriage and society and errant behavior. She was an absolute chatterbox when discussing those topics and their relationship to the movie. A central plot turn has Anna falling from grace in the eyes of practically everyone around her.
"One of the major parts of 'Anna Karenina' is the society aspect, and the society turning on the individual," she said. "There are rules in society, and they're very strict rules. And it's in all walks of society. You can see it on the playground or in offices or in politics. It's what we do as human beings. We are pack animals. We form the pack and to solidify the pack, we turn on the individual."
Given the choice, if Knightley had met Anna in real life, even she might have turned on her. And it was no picnic playing the character.
"Empathy is something that makes me so interested in acting," she said. "You don't have to be particularly intelligent to be an actor, but you do have to empathize with the character. If you meet someone you don't like, you don't think, 'Oh, why is this person behaving like this?' You think, 'I don't like you.'
"What's interesting in acting is that, whether I like this person or agree with how this person behaves, I have to try and understand, because I'm playing them, and I can't judge them from the inside, unless they are judging themselves.
"Do we manage to do that in everyday life? No, of course not. Because we are the center of our own thing, and we enjoy judging other people, we enjoy morally putting somebody else down in order to make ourselves feel better. That's what we do as humans, and that's what you do to Anna. You judge her. You judge her deceitfulness, her manipulative nature, her vanity. But you equally think, 'Is there anything within this that I don't have within my own personality? Have I been deceitful or manipulative, have I hurt the people that I love most?' Yes, because we're humans and that's what we do. Do we also judge that? Yes, we do."
What Anna is being judged about is her torrid affair with the young and dashing Count Vronsky (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), right under the nose of her stuffy husband. But any fan of the novel or the movies would admit that Anna and Vronsky are not a good match. Knightley tried to explain the attraction.
"I think it's lust at first sight. I think it's romance," she said. "And I don't think she's ever had either. Of course, when you're looking at love as an entire emotion, there's not just the romantic bit, not just the lust, not just the companionship, but equally there's the loneliness, the jealousy. She can't recognize anything other than that initial part because she's never had it before. And that's her tragedy. Once she's tasted it, that's the only thing that love becomes. She can't recognize the love that actually is there between her and her husband, because it is less than that lust. If you've never experienced that kind of sexual thing or that romance, then of course you'd see it and you'd cling onto it."


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Tommy Caldwell Hurt on the Dawn Wall
Tommy Caldwell has suffered an injury that could delay the big-wall project for another season.
Tommy Caldwell's famed Dawn Wall project seems to have been ill-fated for the 2013 season. First, the government shutdown caused a two-week delay for Caldwell and his climbing partners Kevin Jorgeson and Chris Sharma. And now, Caldwell has suffered an injury that could delay the big-wall project for another season.
On November 1, Caldwell wrote on his Facebook page: "Disaster strikes! Haul bag took a 200-foot plunge while clipped to the back of my harness. Hauling hook fail. It was a bit jarring. Looks like a costochondral separation. I am headed home to try and heal as quickly as possible."
A costochondral separation, which occurs when a rib separates from the sternum, can take upwards of three months to heal with complete rest from strenuous activities. At this time, however, it is unknown whether Caldwell's injury is mild or severe, but with the already shortened window of climbing on what is likely the world's hardest big-wall free climb, the Dawn Wall project could be delayed until 2014.
Caldwell has been attempting to free climb the Dawn Wall since 2007. The route follows the aid line of Mescalito with slight variations and holds a staggering six pitches of 5.14 climbing. Despite the government shutdown postponement, Caldwell, Jorgeson and Sharma were reportedly making good progress on the route. Kevin Jorgeson and Caldwell provided updates during their 2013 bid via Facebook–a few of which you can see below.
Update: According to Chris Sharma's latest Instagram post, it does indeed seem that the 2013 Dawn Wall season has ended.
Sharma posted: "A huge big up and thanks to the Dons of the Dawn Wall @tommycaldwell and @kjorgeson for having me up there with them." It was such a new and mind blowing experience. It's hard to comprehend how big and hard that thing is. Tommy I hope you recover and get back up there soon. Was so good getting to hang after so many years!"


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I want to share with you a miracle. My quest for knowledge and understanding of a way to improve my health and well-being almost ten years ago not only was the seed of Herbal Advantage Inc., but I believe is also the reason I'm alive today.
You see, by now I should probably be a statistic; another victim of self-neglect that is all too common these days, most often rationalized under the "sooner or later, something's going to kill you, so why worry?" philosophy.
As an international agricultural consultant, I prepare feasibility studies and supervise the consrtuction of large scale commercial greenhouse projects all over the world, demanding jobs that call for international travel, lots of exercise, strength and stamina. When out on projects I'd feel trim, strong and fit. But in between assignments was another story. My weight and cholesterol would go up, I'd be short of breath and the feeling of well-being I had would evaporate.
Eight years ago, after decades of dietary self-indulgence, I reached the bottom of my physical barrel with cholesterol readings as high as 320 and a two-pack-a-day cigarette habit. I knew I had to find some way of improving my health. I was looking for something that I could have control over, something only limited by my knowledge and motivation for improvement.
While searching the Internet I came across some information on the Kombucha Mushroom. I paid $15 for my first Kombucha, and started drinking the tea and growing the mushroom. It made me feel better almost immediately. My breathing improved, joint pain that was starting to develop was eased. I became a believer in the power of Kombucha mushrooms, and started selling them. Although I didn't know it at the time, my newfound appreciation of what the mushroom did for me was the beginning of Herbal Advantage, Inc.
At that time there were very few people who knew about the mushroom, and wanting to share my knowledge, I wrote a little booklet, complete with the recipe for the tea I was drinking, and I started selling the Kombucha Mushroom.
With a background in horticulture and agriculture, I widened my investigation to include herbs. I had always appreciated the beauty and serenity of plants, and to discover the power of herbs, how they could improve your health when used properly was just mind-boggling to me. It was around this time I also learned about the sweet herb Stevia, and how you can use it to rid your life of the harmful effects of artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, as well as sugar.
I had never been a user of artificial sweeteners, but did not feel entirely comfortable with sugar either, my family having a high incidence of diabetes. Like many people, I believed that most cases of diabetes are inherited -- that if you were predisposed, the disease would emerge sooner or later depending on your health and lifestyle.
I recently learned that during the 16th International Diabetes Congress, it was stated that only 10 percent of people with the disease are suffering from type-one diabetes "which is often genetic in origin," the rest, (about 122 million people worldwide) suffering from type-two. In fact, they described diabetes during the conference as "a truly global epidemic." Paul Zimmett, CEO of the International Diabetes Institute was quoted as saying, "people who were not at risk before (are) now developing diabetes." Scary news, and all the more reason to seek out traditional, time-tested ways to improve your health. Stevia has enabled me to cut down substantially on sugar.
I set out on an intensive course of self-education on herbs, with the help of my wife Josie, a dentist who has an extensive knowledge of herbal remedies, having practiced in the Philippines where pharmaceuticals are extremely hard to obtain.
Our catalog grew, filling with herbs for many uses as well as Stevia plants, and, of course, Stevia leaf and Stevia extract. Then in January of 1996, a feature article about Stevia titled "Sinfully Sweet" appeared in New Age Journal magazine. Written by investigative journalists Linda and Bill Bonvie, this article marked the first time the Food and Drug Administration's efforts to block Stevia, (as well as Stevia's history of safe use and widespread popularity in Japan) had been chronicled in a national magazine.
Herbal Advantage was mentioned in a source box on where to buy Stevia, and our phone started ringing off the hook. I didn't realize until that article appeared just how hungry the public was for a safe, noncaloric, natural sweetener. Before January of '96 we use to buy Stevia by the pound, now we buy it by the ton. That same month we incorporated, reflecting just how much we had grown in such a short time.
In September of '96 I went to Venezuela to build a greenhouse, working seven days a week at extremely high altitudes. I came back the week before Christmas feeling terrific. But, as in years past, I started gaining weight and sitting in front of the computer for hours taking phone orders and my well-being started going downhill again.
On June 19th I started experiencing mild chest pains and went to my doctor. I had planned a trip to Russia on a greenhouse project at the beginning of July and wanted to make sure everything was okay. My doctor was reassuring. The EKG was fine, I looked good, and if I had any more chest pains, she said, just take three aspirin, three times a day.
Several days later Josie saw something in my face that alarmed her. At 3 a.m. Sunday morning she convinced me to go to the emergency room of St. Johns Regional Health Center. They immediately stabilized me with blood thinners and other medications. Early Monday morning Dr. John Windsor performed an angiogram and did five angioplasts. He also installed two stents, springlike devices that hold the artery open. All this was just to stabilize me, my arteries being 98% blocked. The doctors were working hard to avert a first heart attack, which thanks to their skill (and some luck), was prevented. Cardiac surgeon Dr. Mark Avery bumped his entire Monday morning surgical schedule to get me in immediately. On Monday I underwent five-and-a half-hours of open-heart surgery in which they did six bypasses.
While four years of receiving the heath benefits of herbs and the Kombucha were not enough to undo a lifetime of self-indulgence and periods of inactivity. I am convinced that the Kombucha tea and the herbs I had been utilizing for the past few years were what enabled me to withstand the strain of the surgery and have such a quick and complete recovery. I am on no special medications, just working to lower my cholesterol and blood sugar, and get more regular exercise. I smoked my last cigarette on June 22, the day before my surgery.
When I needed medical care I was fortunate enough to be able to find skilled and caring doctors and staff; certainly if you break your leg it would be a better bet to seek out a doctor then an herbalist. But there is another world besides chemical pharmaceuticals and MDs, a world of health and healing that millions of people have made use of for thousands of years. With a little education, I believe that you can take care of the vast majority of you own ailments. Had I embraced herbs many years before, stopped smoking and made a concerted effort to moderate my diet, there is a good possibility I could have avoided my medical crisis.
Shortly after my discharge from the hospital one of our good customers, Tower Laboratories, phone to place an order for Stevia Extract that they use in their "Heart Technology" drink mix. I asked them to tell me about their drink; how it was formulated, and what did it do. They told me about Dr. Linus Pauling and how he came up with the theory that Heart Disease could be eliminated RIGHT NOW by everyone that followed his formula. They also told me about the video he made at the age of 92 that goes into great detail on his findings and how it led him to the formula and dosage that is the basis of the "Heart Technology" drink mix. Sounds too good to be true --- doesn't it?
A few days later, while visiting my doctor, John Windsor, I asked him if he had heard of Dr. Linus Pauling and of the Heart Technology formula. His response was that "in theory, Dr. Pauling's findings were true but because of the very high cost of the blood test for "Lp(a)" he could not recommend it to anyone.
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For me it was almost too late, but I want you to know that things can be turned around, even when you've made terrible mistakes in your life. I feel that I've been blessed, and would like to share some of my knowledge and understanding, as well as the herbs that made all the difference to me -- with you.
Stephen Marsden was assisted in writing this article by Linda and Bill Bonvie. Steve is the owner of Herbal Advantage, Inc , Rogersville, Missouri and may be reached at 800-753-9199 or at: email@example.com
Update: October 2004 - Seven and one half years later I am completely drug free. I have taken no medication since my operation. I take 3 doses a day of Heart Technology (that's 9,000 mg Vitamin C). I very seldon get sick. I never get a flu shot and if I do get sick I'm usually better within 24 hours. When I do get sick I start right off with some chicken soup with lots of onions and cabbage. I take 2 capsules an hour of Ecninacea, Cayenne, Goldenseal, and Garlic and one capsule of Vitamin C an hour. A day later and I'm back to 100%. Steve Marsden
Update: November 2014 - I was 55 years old on June 23rd, 1997 when they performed an angiogram, did five angioplasty and installed two stents. Later that same day during five-and-a half-hours of open-heart surgery they did six bypasses. Five years later I was told I was diabetic and MUST start taking insulin. After that I changed my diet. Now over 17 years after surgery I am still drug free. That's right - no drugs. I take lots of herbs and supplements and a few years ago I started doing Chelation. But no prescription drugs of any kind and no insulin. The American diet is what is killing Americans. If you want to be healthy stop the GMO's, stop the artificial sweeteners, stop the corn sweeteners, stop grains like wheat and corn, and stop the junk food. Most of all stop the High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). I am not a doctor. What I am doing may not be right for you but if you want to find out more about what I'm doing email me. My way is not the easy way but it works for me. Steve Marsden
Update: October 2015 - Just completed my annual physical examination and everything is looking well. My doctor who read me the riot act just a few years ago now seems pleased that I am doing so well without drugs. We talk about issues I have had and the herbs I use to correct them. This year I spent a little more time going over my diet with him. I explained to him how I raised my own grass fed beef, that I buy free range chickens, turkeys and eggs from local farmers and that I drink 1.5 gallons of raw milk from Jersey cows every week. I seldom eat sweets or grain of any kind.
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A critical IE vulnerability Microsoft patched Tuesday is under active exploit.
Online attackers are actively exploiting a vulnerability in Internet Explorer that allows them to execute malicious code on computers that visit booby-trapped websites, researchers said in an advisory that underscores the importance of installing a Microsoft patch as soon as possible.
The exploit of a critical IE bug, reported by researchers from antivirus provider McAfee, means there are two newly disclosed vulnerabilities in Microsoft products under attack. On Tuesday, Microsoft warned of a separate vulnerability in all supported versions of Windows that was also actively being exploited.
The most immediate significance of the McAfee report is this: If you run Windows and haven't installed Tuesday's batch of security fixes, you should stop whatever else you're doing and run them now.
"The exploit works across all major Windows platforms, including Windows Vista and Windows 7," McAfee researcher Yichong Lin wrote in an advisory. "It leverages return-oriented programming (ROP) exploitation technology to bypass… data execution [prevention] (DEP) and address space layout randomization (ASLR) protections, and hook-hopping evasion techniques to evade host-based IPS detections." The attacks work against default installations of Windows XP. For them to work against more recent versions of the Microsoft OS, a targeted system must be running an older version of Oracle's Java virtual machine.
In a frequently asked question section of Tuesday's Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-037, company officials said: "Microsoft is aware of limited attacks attempting to exploit the vulnerability. However, when the security bulletin was released, Microsoft had not seen any examples of proof of concept code published." A corresponding exploitability index said only that exploit code was "likely." But according to Lin, he and his colleagues discovered the attack on June 1 and worked with Microsoft as it prepared Tuesday's fix.
Microsoft on Tuesday issued a temporary fix for a separate vulnerability that attackers are also exploiting to execute malicious code on end-user machines. According to Zero-Day blogger Ryan Naraine, attacks targeting that vulnerability, which resides in an XML component included in Windows, prompted recent warnings Google issued to users who may be the victims of state-sponsored attacks.
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TNT Express takeover abandoned by UPS. $6.9B deal nixed.
TNT Express, the struggling Dutch package delivery company was set to be taken over by UPS in a $6.9 billion deal. But the shipping giant has abandoned the deal, sending shared of TNT Express plummeting.
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Shares in package delivery company TNT Express NV were knocked as much as 50 percent lower Monday on news that United Parcel Service Inc. has ditched its €5.2 billion ($6.9 billion) takeover of the struggling Dutch company, citing objections from European regulators.
Though TNT will receive a €200 million ($265.5 million) break fee, it faces an uncertain future on its own. The drop in share price wiped off nearly €2 billion from its market value. At one point, the shares had plunged by 50 percent before recovering somewhat to be trading 42 percent lower at €4.762.
UPS had offered in March to buy TNT, Europe's second-largest delivery company, to better compete with Europe's largest, Deutsche Post's DHL. But regulators said in October that the deal would hurt competition by reducing the number of companies in the sector.
In response, UPS offered to sell parts of the company's small package operations and airline assets. But after meeting with regulators Jan. 11, UPS told TNT it saw no prospect of the deal being approved — and it wasn't interested in further concessions.
In its last earnings report, for the third quarter of 2012, TNT lost €3 million on sales of €1.8 billion. Former CEO Marie-Christine Lombard quit in September — mid-takeover — in a move that was criticized as "unethical" by TNT's chairman, Antony Bergmans, and suggested the deal was in trouble, since she stood to gain a €2.6 million bonus for seeing it through to completion.
She was replaced on an interim basis by CFO Bernard Bot.
In a statement, TNT conceded that the "protracted merger process has been a distraction for management" and that it would now focus on reassuring customers, encouraging employees and making money.
"Management will provide an update on its strategy in due course," the company said.
UPS CEO Scott Davis said he was "extremely disappointed" with the stance taken by regulators on what would have been his company's largest-ever acquisition.
"We proposed significant and tangible remedies designed to address the European Commission's concerns with the transaction," he said, adding that the deal would have benefited customers worldwide and supported economic growth "particularly in Europe."
The European Commission, which would not comment, must publish its review of the deal by Feb. 5.
The Commission reviews major corporate mergers and acquisitions to ensure they do not hurt fair competition in the market. It has the power to block deals or to demand concessions, such as the sale of business parts, to safeguard market balance.
Before UPS's bid for TNT Express, some analysts thought rival FedEx Corp. might make an offer for the company, but FedEx executives said in March they had no plans to do so.
SNS Securities analyst Geert Steens said European regulators have signaled they would not view a takeover by FedEx or — less likely— DPD, a unit of France's La Poste, as problematic. But there is little guarantee either will bid for TNT in the current climate.
Steens said TNT is worth around €4 per share as an independent company, and some observers thought UPS was overpaying at €9.50. TNT's largest shareholder — the former Dutch national mail company PostNL — will likely keep angling for a takeover as it needs to cut its debt.
Shares of PostNL fell 34 percent to €1.88.
TNT's assets in Asia and Latin America are part of the reason for its attractiveness as a takeover target, but the company's Brazilian operations ran into severe problems in 2010-2011 and were still loss-making in the third quarter of 2012.


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Election 2014: Wong, Leijon, Callicrate, Olmer move on for IVGID
By the numbers - IVGID primary*
Kendra Wong: 751 votes (24.38%)
Shelia Leijon: 714 votes (23.18%)
Tim Callicrate: 634 votes (20.58%)
Robert Olmer: 277 votes (8.99%)
Megan Lade: 261 votes (8.47%)
Frank Wright: 245 votes (7.95%)
Aaron Katz: 198 votes (6.43%)
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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — If Tuesday's election was any indication, the race for two trustee spots on the Incline Village General Improvement District board ought to be a tight one.
Kendra Wong, Shelia Leijon and Tim Callicrate each received more than 20 percent of Incline residents' votes in the 7-person IVGID primary, according to unofficial results from Washoe County.
Wong topped the list with 751 votes, good for 24.38 percent, while Leijon was close behind at 714 votes (23.18 percent). Not far off was Callicrate's 634 votes, accounting for 20.58 percent.
Robert Olmer received 277 votes (8.99 percent), finishing fourth.
The four will vie for two seats being vacated by current board members Bruce Simonian and Joe Wolfe.
"I really appreciate everyone's support … I'm very glad to be in the top four. I think we have a great pool of candidates for the general election and I'm excited to see how November shapes up," Wong, 34, said Wednesday. "One of the things I'm looking forward to doing … is to get out and meet more community members."
Wong said she'll focus that effort in July and August when the most people and second-home owners are in town, before ramping up heavy campaigning again in October.
"… I'm really pleased with the selection that the community has made, and I think that it affirms my belief that Incline Village and Crystal Bay would really like to have reasonable, responsible representation in the future," Leijon, 60, said Wednesday. "I plan get my name out there and my platform as clearly stated as possible … so when residents make their selection in November, they're well informed and they know who they're voting for."
Callicrate served as an IVGID trustee from 1997-2000. He thanked voters for their support.
"It's humbling to be given your votes of confidence and it means a tremendous amount to me as a 29-year resident to be given the opportunity, once again, to vie for a position on the IVGID Board," said Callicrate, 54, in a statement to the Bonanza. "I look forward to discussing the issues the community feels are the most pressing and hope to be able to share my ideas and vision in a productive and collaborative way."
Callicrate ran for the IVGID board in 2012 among 10 challengers. He made it past the primary, but lost in the general election.
Olmer, who also ran in 2012 but did not make it past the primary, edged 31-year-old Megan Lade by 16 votes for the final spot in this year's general election. Lade finished with 261 votes on Tuesday.
"I look forward to working hard, campaigning hard and reaching out to the voters … and finding out what's most important to them," Olmer, 58, said Wednesday, "and making sure whatever decisions are made by the board represent what the community and residents of Incline Village and Crystal Bay want."
Frank Wright (245 votes) and Aaron Katz (198 votes) finished sixth and seventh, respectively, in Tuesday's primary. Both also failed to make it past the 2012 primary.
In all, 3,080 votes were counted in the IVGID race, across 10 districts, which includes early voting.
Across Washoe County, voter turnout was 23.43 percent (217,655 registered voters) for the 2014 primary, nearly 3.5 percentage points higher than the 2012 primary.
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