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Aha Greece! So you dream of living in Greece and therefore becoming another Brit in Crete.gr? Then this is the website for you. Firstly, let me say here and now, we live in the European Union. That stands for something meaningful in Greece. So what are you waiting for come on over...
If you are a UK or Irish national, or from any of the other 27 EU states, you have the right to be living in Crete or living anywhere in Greece for that matter that is not off limits - for example, near a military zone or restricted border area. Despite the economic downturn, Crete is still an attractive hotspot for British and Irish Ex-pats! For anyone wishing to buy a property in Crete, there is no better time than now with endless choice. For new property developments, "A Place in the Sun Live" Overseas Property Exhibition in March in ExCel London or in September in Birmingham are great places to start doing your homework. But hey, if you are not thinking on purchasing a property overseas, still keep reading and plan for visiting Crete with view to the home rental market.
The "system" here in Crete is very relaxed. Rules are rigid, but lightly enforced until someone snitches, then the police must act. This is generally the case and just the way it works. It means the police do not get over worked, and life is somewhat peaceful. No concerns about safety for the kids or even for the oldies. You can let them out without a leash. Make sure your dog is on one though. Roaming dogs are not appreciated in villages. Just watch out when driving, above all else, for a traffic cop having a bad day, usually on a motor bike. If you are stopped, then speak clearly, in slow deliberate English and do not speak out of turn. If you are over the booze limit, you are in deep crapola if you are stopped and breathalized! P.S. No "Mooning" when intensely happy. One young Bristol guy in the sun, sand and sex resort of Malia several years ago dropped his shorts to his ankles and drew the wrath of an offended Cretan lady. She became a local heroine for her actions. Suffice to say the young Brit is coping with the aftermath and luckily he has kept all his bits. Just..
Working in restaurants, bars pubs etc -- where food is handled you will need to get a health clearance paper from the local health authority. Outside of the tourist sector, making an income can be very difficult unless you are creative and/or willing to do things you would uncharacteristically do back home.
Never use personal cheque books. Ask around, you'll know why.
If you are over 60 years old, you definitely are in the seniors category. That is a plus. Greeks can't work after pension age. If you are taking your UK pension in Greece then you must register as a resident. A tax thing. You do not want to be double taxed.
Being 60+ and retired also means something in Greece, especially in healthcare. If, in the event you need hospital support and are a registered resident it is OK to just go to the prefecture hospital, passport in hand, and an E121 if you have it. Or better still get the local "IKA" Social Security book as soon as possible that waves you past public hospital bureaucracy. If you retire from UK and at the time are already resident in Greece you will be given the necessary papers by DWP to immediately get Greek healthcare.
If you need to go to hospital unexpectedly, you go, not to an Accident & Emergency Department (A & E) initially - they don't have them usually, but to "Pathology". Just follow the crowd after you check in with hospital reception. Most medical terms in English are taken from Greek. Therefore, you will soon fathom out the hospital signs. Many doctors did their internships in Britain, North America or South Africa. While they speak English with regional accents to match, back up and nursing staff may not.
You do not have to satisfy your neighbours and / or Brit or Irish friends' inquisitiveness (nor new found acquaintances) with your medical history or any other confidential matters ... Crete can be like a sieve where confidentiality is concerned. But that also means you soon become part of the 'greater community'. Go to any government office and you will know what I mean about privacy. Keep stumm on anything you do not want bandied about. Yet, officially, Greece has the best privacy laws in Europe and at state level respects them.
And, just in case you are a little confused, Greece drives on the right, with left hand drive - the opposite to the UK and Ireland. At times it does get confusing - when too much of the local strong stuff, raki (distilled grape must) gets consumed.
This is the simple message I give to all of you dreaming of living in Greece. Leave your UK and Irish "mindset", well, in the UK and Ireland, at the time you leave British and Irish shores. That applies to all intending Ex-pats in Greece - put aside life in your home country after you arrive in Greek. There is another world out there. It is called: Greek Life.
In fact, the best way to move to Crete happily, is adjust to local time (I do not mean GMT+2 ) I mean, just slide in and blend -- go with the flow. Adjust to the slower pace. Follow the paper trail, if you have to. It is not just foreigners who have to face it and do it. Greeks bemoan the bureaucracy all the time. Do not rush any decisions, unless a government official is on your tail. Then think long and hard before acting upon it.
Get to know the Greeks, they are generally a great and caring lot, especially in a village. The way it is here, is the way it is.
You'll find Creta is very, v-e-r-y quiet for the most part in winter. That is a great time of year to pursue those pastimes you never have had enough time for before in your working life, such as bird watching, painting, and other pleasurable pursuits including hiking, riding, just being close to nature or if you are a Samaritan, do it. The list is as long as your imagination. In winter time, there is nothing quite like the smell of a real log fire either burning Olive or Carob wood. So in winter, be active and set yourself things to do. You'll be fine.
A quick plug for our web sites: I hope you will check out the Brits in Crete Forum and post questions about your future here. One of the most visited sections regards employment:
Note: If you are an employer, post your job offerings in this section.
If you are a job seeker - tell employers you are looking (it is free to do so).
It is best to come and rent for a while and to see if you like the area you are staying. Then make longer, lasting decisions.
Turn your dream of living in Greece an ex-pat reality. Follow these simple basic pointers that apply to Crete or in fact anywhere in Greece and you will be living the good life, very quickly. Remember, in Greece, money talks. If you want to be a hermit, look to be a rich one, regardless if you are British or Irish or any other nationality.


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What the hell was that? No, really — what the heck is going on with True Blood? After half the cast got high and started giving each other piggyback rides, I had to just throw my hands in the air and say "Fuck it!" Put the werewolf in board shorts for some barnyard calisthenics — because this is True Blood town, where your logic is shot in the head (just like the characters). There's no reasoning with it anymore, this series is just pure insanity. At least Steve Newlin is back, for reasons. But let me break it down Pro/Con style shall we?
Spoilers ahead...
Con: Meloni is dead. What a waste. What a terrible, terrible waste. I know many of you pointed out that on IMDB or something he was noted for additional episodes, we can only assume that these are flashbacks. And as Russell would say, flashbacks are for pussies. I want real-time Vampire Meloni. In a show that has more useless characters than Luna has lives, letting Meloni go so early on — and when he was just about out of Vampire Bible mumbojumbo to spit out — well, it's a damn shame.
Con: Also ruined with Meloni's death, the beautiful pair of Vampire Golf Pants Meloni's sweet ham shanks made dance.
Con: So Meloni is dead, and instead we get Vampire Night Vision. So the prisoner has escaped, and is captured again with a net, as you can plainly see. But is then set free? I don't understand this coup. There are clearly other members that do not believe in the Sanguinista movement — why don't they take the place? Russell is clearly subdued, so their best weapon is down... why do they let him out?
Pro: During the Vampire Night Vision skirmish, Eric was stapled to the wall. Important.
Pro: This was all under 2 minutes. TRUE BLOOD!
Pro: "We're testing her luminescence." "I'm going to send my light through her and if the fae in her is strong." Ha! Fae CSI. I guess if we must keep beating this old fae plot line, I'm happy they can pepper it with lines like these, while the actors wave their hands about.
Pro: Jason is killing it in this scene: "Let's just plug her in and charge her up." Yes. Lets.
Pro: "TMI Coroner Spencer," you said it, Kevin. TMI.
Con: This again.
Pro: Hoyt's eyeliner is still all over his face. Aw. And another Pro for joining a hate group with someone named Dragon. Oh dear me. Count down until they kidnap Jessica and Hoyt has to make the decision: his old love, or the new love of Dragon.
Con: Molly, Eric and Bill are in Vampire Jail? Then why does Molly get a computer? Or if she's not in jail, why would she be allowed to type on her computer outside of the prisoner's jail cell? I don't... understand.
Pro: Surprise: Russell is a Lilith thumper now.
Pro: Eric immediately tells Nora to go fuck herself. Ha! There's actually lots of great swearing in this scene. Bill even gets in on the act a little. "Bullshit, you can't play the grieving widow and the leader of the coup!" And finally "Bible-Banging Cunts!" Good job everyone!
Con: The night Bill and Eric buried Russell, Salome followed them to the construction site — so that's how she knows. The end. Aren't we all glad we spent copious non-Meloni time humping down this mystery? What a rewarding discovery!
Pro: I don't for a second believe this born-again bullshit from Russell.
Pro: Werewolf training montage. I don't know what is more ridiculous: Alcide's bandanna (Hey Alcide!) or Alcide's bandanna.
Pro: This is how I just naturally walk around.
Pro: Oh dear me, I love this totally hokey completely adorable wedding video. Who else wishes we could have seen this for real? We need more happiness on this show — and not like "I just banged my Vampire Brother" happy, legit emotion. This video is truly sweet and not just because it has adorable vintage Hoyt and Jessica along with Jesus and Lala (pre gross Jesus stitched lips corpse head) but because it shows the reasons we started caring about this town, the wacky, lovable people! And no Tara!
Con: True Blood wanted us to know that the Sheriff cheats on his wife. Don't you all feel better because of this?
Con/Pro: Although the actress who plays Tara is an insanely beautiful girl and looked like Danger Sex Magic in that leather... um bathing suit... bikini? Anyway, she looked great and she was totally doing her little vampire strip show very well. However, did anyone else feel weird watching this? Perhaps I didn't want Tara to find her inner strength on the pole? Or maybe it was the music? Something just didn't quite match up here. Thankfully after this scene, shit finally got real for this character.
PRO: OH MY GOD THE CRIMPED HAIR! I die.
Pro: Tara's Mom shows up to remind everyone that she's a genuinely garbage person with garbage for brains and garbage for a soul. But that's OK, because we already knew that about her. But what we learned was that Tara has now cracked opened the pink lacquered heart of Pam. And there was a glorious hug. If anyone can elevate Tara's path, it's gotta be Pam. Oh, sweet Jesus with a curling iron, that hair is amazing!
Con: ANOTHER RELIGIOUS VAMPIRE CEREMONY.
Con: Christopher Heyerdahl, most likely for questioning the amount of Religious Vampire Ceremonies per episode. I will miss you Heyerdah and your melodious barritone. If there was a wise old turtle in the cartoon re-teling of Rudyard Kipling's Rikki-Tikki-Tavi he would have your voice, sir.
Con: So everyone drinks Lilith's blood and they get really high and walk around New Orleans. Newly discovered fact: Watching vampires get stoned is just as exciting as watching your neighbors get stoned and spend three hours looking for their keys. (Another fact: the keys are always in their pocket.)
Pro: Oh, and Rev. Steve Newlin is back now. So that's good, we missed him. I can understand his character's motivations: He's a chameleon when it comes to power, so this makes sense. I just wish we'd maybe been privy to how this changeover of power happened.
Pro: But out of the whole stoned vampire mess came this one, truly beautiful moment. Eric gave Bill a piggyback ride.
Thank you Samantha May for the gif!
Pro: Oh so while all this other crazy stuff has been happening, Lala went to (a place I forget) to save Jesus' soul form the evil magic man. Which means, we had to be subjected to this horror. Not only is Jesus' dead head stuck on a microwave, with his lips sewn together — but Lala gets jumped, and the same horrific shit happens to him. Only to be sliced open slowly...so slowly thread by thread. Revolting. I guess this was how season five one-ups the whole UTI-inducing dirt sex scene between Bill and Sooks.
Pro: Karaoke with Russell, you can't even put a price on it.
Pro: So the gang of high vampires descend on this bar full of people, to eat them. Okay, sure — why not? Is anyone else getting the distinct feeling we're all just watching an elaborate writing exercise? Do you think Ball just shows up into the writers room with a beret full of various locations and actions and makes everyone pick from the hat? "Ok we've got a... REHEARSAL DINNER....at a.....KARAOKE CLUB.....in.... NEW ORLEANS......and they..... ALL DIE.... noooow go!" But then again, Russell Karaoke, so.
Con: Sookie has a flashback of something we saw 45 minutes ago.
Pro: Jessica bites Jason, Jason SHOOTS HER IN THE HEAD. I run around the apartment screaming.
Pro: Lilith shows up, coughs up red chalk on Nora, I'm still screaming.
Pro Baby-faced Godric shows up, and now there are officially one million people in this episode.
THE END. I don't even know what to say, it's just total lunacy. I didn't even write about the laughing Ifrit in this one, because there was too much, and that "suicide is for Muslims" line should be taken into the shed and beat with a belt. But even though we are conflicted I will always *heart hand symbol* you True Blood.
Until next week, may all your "You Light Up My Life" karaoke jams be met with a super hot naked lady covered in blood and Casper.
Screengrabs via Home of the Nutty and Heart gif via I'm Here For Sookie.

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Obamacare premiums will rise and coverage levels will fall if the Trump administration's plan to expand the use of cheaper and less comprehensive insurance policies is enacted, according to a new analysis from the Urban Institute.
Last week, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced that the administration intends to change the rules governing short-term, limited-duration insurance plans, making them available for 364-day terms, up from three months under the current guidelines.
The plans are intended to provide health insurance for people who have temporary gaps in coverage and are typically less expensive than plans available through the Obamacare markets, in large part because they do not have to provide the 10 essential benefits defined by the Affordable Care Act. By way of example, HHS said that in "the fourth quarter of 2016, a short-term, limited-duration policy cost approximately $124 a month compared to $393 for an unsubsidized ACA-compliant plan."
In an op-ed published Friday at CNN, Azar promoted the new rules as a victory for access, affordability and choice. Criticizing Obamacare for imposing "an unprecedented level of regulation and standardization on individual-market health insurance" that resulted in higher prices, Azar said the new rules "could benefit millions of middle-class families who can't afford the premiums of Obamacare plans."
But the expansion of choice would come at a price. The Urban Institute found that the new rules would "would increase the number of people without minimum essential coverage by 2.5 million in 2019." And premiums would rise because healthy people would gravitate toward the cheaper plans, leaving a less healthy insurance pool for the Obamacare markets. The combined effect of expanding the use of cheaper insurance plans and eliminating the individual mandate would drive Obamacare premiums up by 18.2 percent in the 43 states that allow short-term plans. Nine states would see premiums rise by 20 percent or more.
More broadly, The Washington Post editorial board warned that the new rule would open the door to "junk insurance plans," saying "The department's plan would allow insurance companies to sell virtually unregulated health policies. This would signal a return to the bad old days when insurers could sharply limit benefits, impose caps on coverage and discriminate against people with preexisting conditions."


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Our banner is from an oil painting by Keith Rocco entitled 'Reverse the Trenches'. It was commissioned by the ACWRT(UK) and unveiled at its 50th Anniversary seminar, May 2003.
It shows the Confederate assault on Union earthworks during the Battle of Cedar Creek, 19 October 1864.
The painting depicts the portion of the earthworks occupied by the 2nd Brigade of the 2nd Division, Emory's XIX Corps, commanded by Colonel Edward Leslie Molineux, an Englishman by birth.
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Title: París al habla. Nº 37/66
Year: 1966
Duration: 14 min., 34 seg.
Sound collection: ORTF. Delayed broadcasts
Summaries: Programa informativo de carácter general
Contingut: Se habla del libro "Le grand meaulnes" llevado al cine --Canción -- Se habla de la Abadia de Montmartre -- Academia de la Ciencias, se habla de su creacion --Jean Pierre Marquant realiza la famosa travesía de El Valle de la muerte -- A. Sylvestre canta cuatro canciones
The ORTF (Office of radiodiffusion television française) had of a radio service in differed that operated through programs recorded in disks of vinyl. Therefore no issued in direct. Said recordings were distributed by the French embassies to the emisoras of the respective countries of influence, like form of propaganda and advertising of all the French. With the arrival of Ramón Chao ahead of this department around the middle of the sixty, posed include to Spain in the network of distribution, taking advantage of the politics of "opening" initiated by the team of the Minister Manuel Fraga Iribarne.
Like this they began to spread radio programs such as Paris to the Speech and Appointment in Paris, created to half way between the high culture and the light culture, with the aim to contribute to the cultural change that was operand in Spain
They Would be a series of magacines cultural similar to the ones of "evasión", although his authentic nature was very distinct. It spoke of a much freer world and less austero, especially in what to the relations between men and women refer , as also to the social paper of the woman in the new times.
Paris to the Speech was a magacín of varieties oriented especially to the Parisian cultural information, configuring like an open window to Europe, showing a different world, much freer and also richer, allowing contrast to his time and of some form the vision offered by the migrant, and the mattered by the European tourists. In reality it treated of an indirect and implicit critic of the morals established, and also of the economic politics of the diet: in sum, a critic to the Franco regime expressed of frivolous form, but no thus less effective.
Of this way the French culture (of western European cut and democratic) played an essential paper in the development of the cultural change that went developing along the decade. A cultural change without which can not understand the back process of the political transition to the democracy in Spain.
It conserves a long series of broadcasts, dated between 1966 and 1973, structured in several separated that generally repeat . A separated of news of cultural character, historical and sportive, a separated on cinematographic and theatrical premières, and a section devoted to the music, usually relative to some Parisian musical event. All this, amenizado with songs intercaladas between separated.
Like realizadores, appear Ramón Chao and Salvador Calabuig. And like locutores, Carmen Bonet, Álex Marco and Luis López Álvarez.
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Intel and STMicroelectronics have developed a new type of phase-change memory chip that doubles the memory density over previous versions, giving a boost to an emerging technology that could one day replace the flash memory chips widely used in portable devices.
The technology is still experimental, but the companies marked another step in its evolution, delivering samples of the new chips to device makers. Proponents say that phase-change memory (PCM) is more reliable than flash memory, and that it will offer faster data transfer speeds and be more durable.
PCM uses a glass-like material that can change from an amorphous, or gaseous, state to a crystalline state as its atoms are rearranged. The state of the material corresponds to the 1s and 0s in computing, allowing it to be used to store data.
As a result of their work, Intel and STMicro said the glass-like material can now be turned into four states instead of two, allowing it to retain twice the amount of data. The material can also exist in liquid and semi-liquid states.
The advances from Intel and STMicro have made the chips smaller and more power-efficient, director of advanced research and development at STMicro, Guilio Casagrande, said.
Intel and STMicro presented their new developments on Wednesday at the International Solid States Circuits Conference in San Francisco.
Numerous other companies have also been working on PCM, also known as PRAM, including IBM, Qimonda, Macronix, Infineon and Samsung.
Phase-change memory has existed since the 1960s, but the cost of the technology and the energy required to drive change between one state and another was not competitive compared to other memory technologies like RAM and flash, said Cliff Smith, technology initiatives manager of Intel's flash group.
PCM has the potential to give fast read and write speeds, while the existing NOR flash type is slow to write and NAND flash is slow to read, Casagrande said. PCM could eventually replace existing memory technologies because of its power efficiency and its ability to reduce data leaks, Casagrande said.
Intel and STMicroelectronics signed a contract to develop PCM in 2003 and are in the process of establishing a flash-memory joint venture called Numonyx, due to launch by March 28. STMicro will hold a 48.6 per cent stake of Numonyx, with Intel retaining 45.1 per cent. The investment company Francisco Partners is also taking part.
Numonyx will manufacture existing flash memory types until PCM is ready for market, Smith said. He expects PCM to appear first in devices such as cell phones in two to three years. Its use will eventually overtake that of DRAM, NOR and NAND flash, he said.


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A residential building is abandoned almost every day in New York City. Its owners stops paying real estate taxes, or water or sewer charges, or refuses to make needed repairs. Most abandoned buildings are occupied, and tenants are left to fend for themselves.
While the city goes to great lengths to prevent abandonment – offering educational seminars, installment plans and low-interest loans to owners whose buildings are in distress – it still sees hundreds of properties each year whose owners have essentially walked away. When all other efforts fail, these properties become part of the city's Third Party Transfer Program, and are placed into responsible new hands.
First, the city convinces a court that the owners have been too long negligent. Then owners have a few months to make amends – by paying the tax arrears and adhering to a repair schedule. If they don't, the city transfers the properties to a holding company which helps new owners, selected by the city Department of Housing Preservation and Development and approved by the City Council, plan rehabilitation and financing. Within a year, the holding company releases the property to the new owners.
So far, 214 properties have passed through the program, with another 100 to be transferred in November. More than 300 are scheduled for the next round. City administrators are pleased with the progress.
"Buildings are flowing through the program nicely," said Michael Bosnick, assistant commissioner of the anti-abandonment program of the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development. "And we certainly don't hear a lot of tenant complaints."
The program has even won a few "good government" awards, and it is undoubtedly better than the system in place in the 1970s and 80s when a wave of abandonment orphaned more than 355,000 housing units. The city took over their management, becoming its own biggest slumlord, since abandoned housing tends to have the worst maintenance problems and the poorest tenants.
Owning these apartments turned out to be very costly for the city and Mayor Rudy Giuliani wanted to change the system. So the city started selling off the properties (in pdf format) and is down to fewer than 6,500. And a number of new mechanisms were put into place to ensure that no new properties would come under city management.
Now, anti-abandonment measures kick in at the first hint of trouble – a few quarters of tax lateness or a disturbing trend of tenant calls to 311. The city contracts with "neighborhood preservation consultants," who reach out to troubled property owners. The consultants, often pre-existing not-for-profit housing groups, might help owners apply for loans so they can pay for repairs or conduct seminars to educate owners about managing and maintaining their properties.
Those who stay on the path to abandonment, are often one of two groups, says Lisa Nicole Grist, executive director of Neighbors Helping Neighbors, a neighborhood preservation consultant in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. They may have inherited a building that they cannot handle, financially, or physically. Or, they may have owned the building for awhile then faced a drastic life change– illness, infirmity, or a financial crisis – and are suddenly in over their heads.
Troubled owners of non-distressed properties may face the sale of their tax lien to private investors who try to collect or else foreclose on the properties. Owners whose buildings need major maintenance can be hauled into court and ordered to commit to a repair schedule, or a judge can appoint an administrator to collect rents and apply them to maintenance. And for the worst case scenarios, for distressed properties that also have tax liens, the city can seek in rem tax foreclosure and place them in the Third Party Transfer program.
About 75 percent of owners who stand to lose their property to transfer manage to pay their debts and make the repairs. The remaining 25 percent who do lose their properties, "fall into two categories," said Bosnick. "Those who have already given up on the properties, and those who are really not happy about losing them." Unlike in the 1970s and 1980s, when widespread abandonment corresponded to a declining population and fewer jobs, today's abandoners tend to be relative newcomers to the market and owners of smaller buildings (especially those containing one to four units.) With no experience in housing management, many are overwhelmed by the city's complex housing regulations and the economic realities of smaller buildings.
"Smaller buildings are the most challenging to run," says Brosnick. "If two of your tenants aren't paying rent, and you only have eight units, you're in trouble. But if you have a 25-unit building, you have more leeway."
Still, he said, "housing has become a much more valuable commodity, even at the lower end of the market, so now you see less outright abandonment. But at the bottom of the market, you see a tendency to cut back on services, to get behind on maintenance and maybe also on taxes."
In Sunset Park, Brooklyn, Neighbors Helping Neighbors often encounters "buildings in which the tenants feel like they have been abandoned, because the owner has stopped providing services," says Grist. "In fact, owners have no intention of walking away; they just hope the tenants will walk away."
Tales of landlords angling for tenants with deeper pockets are legion, but New York's aging housing stock – more than 60 percent of residential buildings were built before 1947 – often needs costly repairs. And with property taxes on the rise too, the anti-abandonment office may soon be busier than ever.
Rebecca Webber is a journalist who has covered housing issues for Gotham Gazette since July 2000.


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And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.... Genesis 7
Giant Sea-bed Pockmarks: Evidence for Gas Escape from Belfast Bay, Maine
Joseph T. Kelley and Stephen M. Dickson
Maine Geological Survey, Station 22, Augusta, Maine 04333 Daniel F. Belknap, Walter A. Barnhardt, and Mark Henderson Department of Geological Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469
These pockmarks are thought to have formed (1) catastrophically during an earthquake, tsunami, or storm, or (2) slowly over thousands of years.Recent observations of bubble releases suggest continuing activity and a potential geologic hazard. The pockmarks involve a poorly documented coastal process of sediment redistribution and methane release, largely unrecognized in the rock record but widespread in middle- to high-latitude embayments.
Article 2: Giant Sea-bed Pockmarks[The following long, initially dull (?) discussion leads unerringly to the Bermuda Triangle via a Fortean phenomenon!]Unrecognized until just a few years ago sea-bed pockmarks are remarkable geological features.
They occur worldwide on the floors of all of the oceans and even some lakes. They are found in shallow waters and at depths of thousands of meters. In diameter, these roughly conical depressions may span 350 meters or more and be up to 35 meters deep.
No trivial phenomenon, some pockmark fields exceed 1,000 km2. Like the curious abyssal ridges sea-bed pockmarks are rarely discussed despite their great geological and economic importance.Recent issues of Geology contain three fascinating papers relating to giant sea-bed pockmarks. In Ref. 1, J.T. Kelley et al describe a pockmark field in Belfast Bay, Maine. Here, the density of the pockmarks reaches 160 per km2, and they are apparently the largest pockmarks yet discovered. The Belfast Bay field is "fresh" and "active" in the sense that the pockmarks are sharply defined and methane bubbles still stream up from buried organic matter. Natural-gas plume rising from the sea-floor off the Carolina coast. Another pockmark field is the subject of P.R. Vogt et al (Ref. 2). It occupies a strip about 1.3 km wide and 50 km long between Greenland and Spitzbergen. This strip of pockmarks seems to be underlain by a deposit of methane hydrate 200-300 meters thick. [Methane hydrate is a weird substance that looks like dirty ice. When brought to the surface, the methane fizzes away, leaving only a puddle of dirty water!] Lastly, in Ref. 3, C.K. Paull et al report on the release of plumes of methane bubbles from the Carolina continental rise at a depth of 2167 meters. Here, the sediments are riddled with methane hydrate.Why all this fuss over fizzy ice, and what is the connection between methane hydrate and pockmarks?
1. The methane hydrate deposits represent immense accumulations of methane -- probably far more natural gas than geologists have found on the continents.
2. Sea-bed pockmarks are thought to be formed when methane gas is explosively vented, perhaps when methane hydrate -- very unstable stuff -- suddenly decomposes.
3. Offshore booms and mistpouffers (SF#73*) are often heard in the areas where pockmarks are common.
4. Rich clusters of methane-dependent life forms surround methane seeps.
5. The quantity of buried organic matter required to create all the offshore methane is staggering. Where did it all come from and how did it come to be buried at such great depths? Could some of the offshore methane be abiogenic?
6. Could the explosive decomposition of methane hydrate create giant bubble plumes that might engulf ships (in certain infamous "triangles") and cause them to sink like rocks in the low-density froth? (SF#25*)
ReferencesRef. 1. Kelley, Joseph T., et al; "Giant Sea-Bed Pockmarks: Evidence for Gas Escape from Belfast Bay, Maine," Geology, 22:59, 1994. Ref. 2. Vogt, Peter R., et al; "Methane-Generated (?) Pockmarks on Young, Thickly Sedimented Oceanic Crust in the Arctic: Vestnesa Ridge, Fram Strait," Geology, 22:255, 1994.~Ref. 3. Paull, Charles K., et al; "Methane-Rich Plumes on the Carolina Continental Rise: Association with Gas Hydrates," Geology, 23:89, 1995
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A man in Meridian, Idaho this morning was seriously injured after living through a nightmare scenario for many of us: a giant piece of lumber came flying through his windshield while he was driving on the highway. You can't see it because Internet, but I'm cringing as I type this.
KVTB in Idaho reports that the unnamed man was driving on Interstate 84 around 8 a.m. local time when a board possibly came loose from a truck and crashed through his windshield. He was badly injured, police told the TV station.
Now, the Idaho State Police are looking for clues as to how this happened. Anyone with information is asked to call them. No word in the story if they will press charges against the driver who loosed the board, but I could see that happening, especially if they didn't stop to render aid.
Are you guys as afraid of this as I am? It's happened before and seems terrifying. How do you even avoid something like this?
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Gingerbread Icebox Cake with Mascarpone Mousse
The term "cake" is used loosely here, but we doubt you'll mind. Part elegant holiday centerpiece, part little-kid fantasy, this tower of cream and cookies is as delicious as it is stunning.
Reprinted with permission from VIntage Cakes by Julie Richardson. Copyright © 2012. Published by Ten Speed Press. Available wherever books are sold. All rights reserved.
- Yield:serves 8
- Active time: 1 hour
- Total time:3 hours, including baking, cooling and assembly
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- Wafers
- 4 3/4 cups (23 3/4 ounces) all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon ground ginger
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 3/4 cup (6 ounces) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 3/4 cup (5 2/3 ounces) firmly packed brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 3/4 cup (9 ounces) unsulfured blackstrap molasses
- Mousse
- 1 pound mascarpone, cold
- 1 1/2 cups heavy cream, cold
- 1/3 cup (2 1/3 ounces) sugar
- 2 tablespoons pure vanilla extract, or 1/4 cup brandy
To make the wafers, center an oven rack and preheat the oven to 350°F.
Sift together the flour, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, baking soda, baking powder, and salt into a bowl, then whisk the mixture by hand to ensure that the ingredients are well mixed.
n the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, mix the butter and brown sugar on medium speed until well combined. Add the eggs one at a time, scraping down the sides and bottom of the bowl between additions. Blend in the molasses. Add the dry ingredients all at once and combine on low speed, scraping down the bowl as needed to create a unified dough.
Divide the dough in four quarters and shape each piece into a rough rectangle about 1 inch thick. Wrap each piece tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate the dough until it is firm enough to roll out, about 2 hours.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough with a rolling pin to 1/8 inch thick or even a bit thinner (use a ruler; you can never go too thin, but you will need to reduce your baking time if you roll the dough thinner than 1/8 inch). Using a 21/2-inch round cookie cutter, cut out disks and place them 1 inch apart on the prepared baking sheet.
Gather up the scraps and reroll. If the dough gets too warm and hard to handle, pop it back in the refrigerator to firm up before continuing. You will need 70 wafers to assemble the cake. If you have extra dough, use it to cut some festive cookies to embellish the top of the cake, or chill it to make more gingerbread wafers later; the dough will keep in the refrigerator for up to 5 days or in the freezer for 2 months.
Bake the wafers until golden around the edges and firm on top, 12 to 14 minutes. Let the wafers cool on their baking sheet until cool enough to handle, then remove them to a wire rack to cool completely.
Once the wafers are baked, make the mascarpone mousse. Place a mixing bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer and its whisk attachment in the freezer for 5 minutes to chill. Blend the mascarpone, cream, and sugar in the cold bowl on low speed until combined. Increase the speed to medium high and whip just until the cream becomes thick and fluffy and holds a stiff peak (warning: overmixing will cause the contents to curdle.) Blend in the vanilla or brandy on low speed until just incorporated.
To assemble the cake, spread about 2 tablespoons of the cream on a flat serving plate. Arrange 6 wafers touching side by side in a circle plus 1 wafer in the middle. Spread a heaping 1/2 cup of mousse atop the wafers, almost covering them but leaving a smidge of room at the edge of the circle.
Repeat with another 7 wafers and more mousse, offsetting the wafers from the previous layer so they do not stack right on top of each other. Repeat until you have ten layers of wafers staggered with ten layers of mousse (not counting your initial dollop on the plate), topping the last layer of wafers with all the mousse that is left in the bowl.
Cover loosely with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 12 hours. Serve chilled, and if you made any decorative cookies, arrange them on the top.
This cake keeps for up to 3 days refrigerated in an airtight container.
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Served: I Get Paid to Write About Cheese (And Other Wonderful Things)!
Hannah Howard has worked in several restaurants, but she's made the switch to the grocery side of the industry. She's now a cheesemonger for a small market chain, and will share her experience here.
9 to 5-ers always seemed to me an exotic bunch; a traditional office job, an elusive "normal" endeavor for "normal" people. And here I am, at an office, at a desk.
I don't have my own office yet (even the company's execs share), or even my own little desk space to call home. But that will come in time, or so I'm reassured. One of the bigwigs told me it took several months before he landed a computer of his own. That made me feel better.
One week ago, I was behind the cheese counter in my baseball hat and chef's jacket, selling cheese to a woman concerned she might be allergic to rennet. I explained to her that pretty much all cheese contains rennet, whether from traditional animal intestines, plants (often thistle), or a synthetic imposter. She insisted digging through our gorgeous tower of cheeses to hunt for ingredient information at the bottom of the cheeses. The beauties are mostly imported from Spain, France, Portugal, Italy, and are without such stickers. She dug anyway. It was like Jenga. Cheeses and cheese signs were tumbling.
When my focus briefly drifted from the undeterred lady and our toppling display, I noticed one of the big bosses was standing across the cheese counter. He seemed amused by the events of the moment. He just came to say hi, and that there might be a job for me.
Six weeks ago, I had embarked on what I had thought would be six months of grocery store operations bootcamp. That meant six weeks behind the cheese counter, three behind the deli, a few in IT, a few in the butcher shop, etc.
"We would hate to cut your training short," he told me, "But you might need to start sooner rather than later."
The next day, I had a phone call from the Marketing VP. The day after that, I showed up to corporate HQ. I left the baseball hat at home.
Master of Sign Writing
I am still without a job title, but I have a mission, a first project. I will be composing signs for our cool products and making sure the signs and the products get to live together for all the world to see. This seemed at first like a small task. How hard could it be to write an enlightening, witty, pithy tagline for some cheeses and olive oils and tapenades?
Until I saw the spreadsheets. We're talking thousands of products. I got a taste of the enormity of the scope on my third day, when the cheese buyer called me into her office.
"Go through these," she said while handing me a stack of pages of cheese descriptions. "We don't need a novel on the life story of the cheese. Just enough to answer the question: 'Why should I buy this?'"
At first, it was a snap. Of course you should snatch up this superb brand of Camembert. It's from Normandy, the homeland of Camembert, and this one's the real deal—funky, mushroomy, earthy, luscious.
And then I got to Camembert number two, Camembert number three, Camembert number fourteen. The first few were a cinch. Then I got increasingly frustrated. How many times can I use the word earthy? How many times can I use the word silky? And why should anyone buy Camembert number seven, when they could buy numbers ten through twelve?
Camembert is just the start. Some of us like to brag that we are curators of the world's best food museum. We've got laundry lists of deluxe, imported anchovies. Olives you've never heard of. Fruits you've never seen. And they all need signs that say, "You didn't know you needed me in your life, but you do! Oh how you do!"
Writing the signs is step one. I've got to be in constant communication with the buyers, so when they get in this new airy olive oil torta from Seville, I can make sure the customers know how delicious and addictive and life-altering the product is.
There is interface between graphics, to make sure the signs are made and typo-free. Down the road, I will be working with the store managers to make sure the signs are where they should be, and that their products are arranged for maximum visibility. And if they want to move the Long Clawson Stilton to its own pretty little table, it better have a shiny sign telling all the world: "This is good, serious stuff!"
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Cincinnati - A baby gorilla being raised temporarily by human surrogate parents is doing well - learning to roll over, sit up and getting ready to walk on all fours.
Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden primate specialists say "Gladys" is in good health and is developing and growing quickly with loving care from 10 humans imitating a gorilla mom's behavior.
Her human caregivers are starting to focus on preparing her for a transition to a new gorilla family. They have been showing her to other gorillas and letting them touch her.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that zoo specialists think she will be ready within a few months.
She was born 29 January at Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas, to a first-time mother who showed little maternal instinct.


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by Celeste E. Tolliver-Kelley
On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 the highly anticipated CD Release Celebration of Pastor Marvin Winans' The Praise+Worship Experience took place at Perfecting Church. The sanctuary was filled in expectation of hearing the musical arrangements compiled and recorded by Pastor Winans.
As Pastor Winans entered the stage introduced by his son, Marvin Winans, Jr., the crowd roared with excitement. He stated, "It is my hope that this CD will show the world how large the spectrum of gospel music is." With that in mind, the gospel arrangements presented ranged from the melodic sounds of anthems, such as "Influence My Heart," (featuring classical soloists Rod Dixon and Lisa Scott Bailey) to traditional gospel, as in "He is My Refuge" (featuring Pastor A.G. Smith). Pastor Winans showcased his musical gifts and talents of directing, and at times sat at the grand piano that graced the stage, spotlighting his instrumental and singing gifts.
The CD Release was impacted with a special surprise musical rendition of "Just Another Day" by Mother Winans. Various artists were included in the celebration, and the reaction of the crowd was explosive as noted artist, Erica Campbell of the renown Mary Mary singing duo, joined Pastor Winans on stage. Pastor Winans stated, "You can write a song, but if you don't have the right singer, it is just a song."
Pastor Winans closed the celebration with the radio single "Draw Me Close/Thy Will Be Done," which has been receiving significant airplay across the country. The CD is now available for purchase at Perfecting Church.


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August 2014
Archbishop visits Anglicans in Papua New Guinea
Saturday 9 August 2014
Archbishop Justin Welby is on a 10-day visit to fellow Anglican leaders in the South Pacific.
Archbishop of Canterbury's statement on Iraq
Friday 8 August 2014
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, issued the following statement today on the situation in…
WWI Centenary: Archbishop writes in the Sunday Express
Monday 4 August 2014
The Archbishop of Canterbury wrote in the Sunday Express yesterday that "even in the deep darkness of…
WWI centenary: Archbishop's Thought for the Day
Monday 4 August 2014
Archbishop Justin gave the Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4's Today programme this morning.
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Archbishop Justin hosts Iftar meal at Lambeth Palace
Friday 18 July 2014
Archbishop Justin hosted an Iftar meal on Wednesday evening for the Christian Muslim Forum, of which…
Archbishop writes to ecumenical partners about women bishops
Thursday 17 July 2014
Archbishop Justin has written to ecumenical partners about the General Synod's decision to allow women…
Archbishop Justin on the Andrew Marr show
Sunday 13 July 2014
A wide-ranging interview with Archbishop Justin was broadcast on the BBC's Andrew Marr show this morning.
Archbishop Justin on the common good
Saturday 12 July 2014
The Archbishop contributed this afternoon to a debate on the common good at the meeting of the General…
Archbishop Justin writes for The Times on the Assisted Dying Bill
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Archbishop Justin has written for The Times on why he believes the Assisted Dying Bill, which will be…
Archbishop expresses deep sorrow at passing of Primate of Orthodox Church in Ukraine
Wednesday 9 July 2014
Archbishop Justin wrote to His Eminence, Metropolitan Onufry of Chernivtsi and Bukovina to express deep…
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Archbishop Justin wrote to the Chairman of the Council of the Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland (EKD),…
'No renewal of the Church without renewal of prayer' - Archbishop in South Africa
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In an address to the Anglicans Ablaze conference in Brynston yesterday, Archbishop Justin spoke of the…
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Technical support to the integration of Red List data on Mediterranean species on the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) ecosystem profile
The Mediterranean basin is one of the world's major centres of plant diversity, where 10% of the world's higher plants can be found in an area representing 1.6% of the Earth's surface. Despite this, precise data on the distribution and status of plants are frequently insufficient, out or date or absent, particularly in the south and east of the region.
The French Development Agency (Agence Française de Développement -AFD) has since engaged actively in sustainable development, especially regarding the careful use of ecosystem and the conservation of biodiversity at large. Being aware of the lack of unified data relevant to the distribution and status of plants in the Mediterranean, essential for the definition of conservation priorities, AFD funded the "Identification of the important sites and habitats for plants in North Africa, the Middle East and Albania and their integration, along with Red Lists of the Mediterranean species, in the Ecosystem Profile of the CEPF", developed by IUCN in 2009, in collaboration with Plantlife International and WWF.
IUCN-Med's role
The conservation of the diversity of life is one of the priorities of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), engaged to provide the necessary knowledge and action for species and ecosystem conservation. The publication on important plant areas has been possible thanks to a joint effort by a number of different experts and institutions involving 10 different countries in the south and east of the Mediterranean region. The IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation has been actively supporting this initiative with the conviction that building bridges for sharing knowledge and experience is the way to preserve biodiversity based on science, and a fundamental step for the conservation of one of the planet's biodiversity hotspots: the Mediterranean.
Objectives and results
- The areas and habitats (corridors) important for plants in North Africa, Middle East and in the Balkans have been identified, described, prioritized, cartography had been created and the results are being communicated to key actors.
- Technical support has been provided to CEPF for the integration of Species Red List data, of forest habitats and of climate change aspects, in the analysis developed by regional actors for the definition of the Mediterranean Hotspot ecosystem profile.
- IUCN members in North Africa and the Mediterranean.
- Regional organizations: Plantlife, WWF, CEPF
- Universities and research centers: Centre for Middle Eastern Plants at the Royal Botanic garden in Edinburgh; University of Reading; IPA team (the full list of universities cooperating in this project, part of the IPAs team, can be found in the IUCN-Med publication).
- IUCN Commissions and Programmes: Plant Species Survival Commission.
- Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
- Critical ecosystem partnership fund (CEPF)
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs- Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AECID)
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Getz may return Monday vs. Orioles
KANSAS CITY -- Second baseman Chris Getz's left knee sprain has improved enough that he was cleared to play before Sunday's game.
"He's fine. [Trainer Nick Kenney] put him through some kind of functional test, and he passed so if we need him in an emergency today, he's available," Royals manager Ned Yost said before Sunday's game.
Although he wasn't used on Sunday against the Tigers, Getz indicated he could play Monday night against the Orioles.
Getz left Saturday night's game in the fifth inning after twisting the knee while trying to field a single by Prince Fielder.
Yost opted to start right-handed-hitter Miguel Tejada at second base against Tigers right-hander Doug Fister instead of switch-hitting Elliot Johnson.
"Fister's been faring better against left-handers lately and Miggy's been swinging the bat good so take advantage of his right-handed bat," Yost said. "We feel it's a good matchup for Miggy."
Yost proved prophetic when Tejada pounded Fister for a homer, the Royals' lone run in their 4-1 loss to the Tigers.


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Of the more than 154,000 ticket requests that flooded the office of Harpo Studios, just a few thousand of Oprah's most loyal and lucky fans were selected for Tuesday's back-to-back shows at the United Center.
There weren't any free cars or any of Oprah's favorite material things, but there were plenty of her favorite people.
The dual shows were a veritable who's who of pop culture the likes of which Chicago hasn't seen in a very long time. Appearing on stage throughout the night with the Queen of Talk: Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Josh Groban, Patti LaBelle, Beyonce, Halle Berry, Queen Latifah, Katie Holmes and Rascal Flatts. And that was just the first show.
Part two brought Will Smith & Jada Pinkett Smith, Jamie Foxx, Stevie Wonder, Jerry Seinfeld, Simon Cowell, Rosie O'Donnell, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Dr Phil McGraw, Nate Berkus, Gayle King, Maya Angelou, Tyler Perry, Alicia Keys, Aretha Franklin, Usher and Maria Shriver.
In the audience: former Mayor Richard Daley and his wife, Maggie Daley, Jessica Seinfeld, Charles Barkley, Dave Chappelle, Emmitt Smith, Wanda Sykes, and Robin McGraw, the wife of Dr. Phil.
The father and brother of Bulls power forward Carlos Boozer were also spotted in the audience, as was Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews, who brought his mom.
Boxes of Kleenex were under most of the chairs on the main floor, a clear sign that there might be tears. And there were.
One audience member named Alex from Winnipeg, Manitoba was called to the stage. From there, he called his gifriend on stage and proposed to her. She said yes and the crowd roared.
Oprah, too, turned on the water works. An especially moving moment was when she was joined on stage by the young men of Morehouse College. One man, who just earned his PHD, later told NBC Chicago that his life would not be the same had it not been for Oprah's help with a scholarship a few years ago.
The show -- dubbed as a "surprise spectacular" -- stayed true to its billing. Oprah, we're told, didn't know what the show would entail or who was on the guest list. Her producers only told her where and when the shows would be recorded.
Throughout the night, Oprah was "surrounded by love," as Tom Hanks said. ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer would later reveal that 25,000 trees would be planted in Oprah's name. Singer John Legend announced that Target was going to rebuild several libraries across the country because of Oprah's committment to books and reading.
Besides a star-studded night of entertainers and high energy, audience members did walk away with something from the show: a free copy of O Magazine.
The shows will air May 23 and May 24. Winfrey's last show airs May 25 after 25 years.
The Night's Updates:
11:22 p.m. -- Kristin Chenoweth, who performed "For Good" earlier in the evening, tweets: "Best night of my life. Sang for Oprah!!!"
11:15 p.m. -- Confetti falls. Celebrities gather. Hugs abound. The End.
11:10 p.m. -- Usher takes the stage, performs "Oh My God" with a choir.
10:55 p.m. -- Aretha Franklin is there, dressed in all white. She sings Amazing Grace.
10:50 p.m. -- The man in Oprah's life, Stedman Graham, is on stage. "I get to be around a woman who changes people's lives every day and also takes her own lunch to work."
10:35 p.m. -- Maya Angelous is there, reading a poem for Oprah. Alicia Keys is playing the piano.
10:24 p.m. -- Kristin Chenoweth sing's "For Good" from the musical "Wicked."
10:20 p.m. -- Students from Morehouse College appear on stage and express gratitude for everything she's done for education. Oprah's water works turn on. | Chicago Tribune Photo
10:20 p.m. -- Shriver introduces Tyler Perry. Perry does his best to re-energize the crowd.
10:10 p.m. -- Oprah's BFFs Gayle King and Maria Shriver walk out on stage. King's mic doesn't work correctly. Shriver lauds Oprah and doesn't say a word about her own personal struggles.
10:02 p.m. -- Rosie O'Donnell walks on stage. She sings "You give me fever." O'Donnell will be using Oprah's vacated studio for her upcoming talk show.
10 p.m. -- Simon Cowell pays tribute to Oprah. He says that Oprah has done what no other TV personality has done with a show. And, he says, she's a good kisser!
9:46 p.m. -- Jerry Seinfeld is on stage with Oprah. He's making jokes about marriage and says Oprah's show is great for husbands-in-training.
9:37 p.m. -- Stevie Wonder appears. Now he and Foxx are both singing to Oprah.
9:35 p.m. -- Will Smith is going through the audience trying to find men who love Oprah. Jamie Foxx is one of them. Foxx sings the Stevie Wonder song, "Isn't She Lovely" to Oprah.
9:34 p.m. -- Jordan tells Oprah that if she ever needs a job she should call him.
|Oprah Winfrey reacts as she is surrounded by Will Smith, his wife Jada Pinkett Smith and Michael Jordan, right, during a star-studded double-taping of "Surprise Oprah! A Farewell Spectacular." (Charles Rex Arbogast, AP)
9:32 p.m. -- Michael Jordan runs out and surprises Oprah. The crowd goes wild.
9:30 p.m. -- Show opens up with Will and Jada Pinkett Smith. Jada calls Oprah a "goddess."
9:28 p.m. -- The second show of Oprah's Surprise Spectacular is just about to get started. On Twitter, @RyanSchram shared this photo of the United Center and Oprah's stage.
9:02 p.m. -- First of two shows comes to a close. Oprah says she feels the love.
8:57 p.m. -- Rascall Flatts performing. | Chicago Tribune photo
8:45 p.m. -- Halle Berry, Katie Holmes and Queen Latifah are on stage lauding Oprah. | Chicago Tribune photo
8:36 p.m. -- Another photo of Beyonce and her dancers, this time from @Sean_Iz_Legend on Twitter.
8:33 p.m. -- ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer is on stage. She announces that 25,000 trees will be planted in Oprah's honor
8:30 p.m. -- Target will rebuild a school library in Chicago in Oprah's honor, singer John Legend announces.
8:25 p.m. -- Oprah is being credited with selling 30 million books. Singer John Legend is seen from New Orleans, showing off books which were donated in Oprah's honor.
8:20 p.m. -- Access Hollywood's Shaun Robinson sent a photo out on Twitter of her in front of Oprah's stage.
8:10 p.m. -- Beyonce apparently not happy with her performance. The audience is going to see her perform "Girls (Who Rule the World)" a second time. She's coming back out and redoing the whole thing.
8:08 p.m. -- Photo of Beyonce performing from @stanimal13 on Twitter.
|Beyonce, Dakota Fanning and Oprah
8:01 p.m -- Another photo from inside the United Center from @stanimal13 on Twitter.
8:00 p.m. -- Chicago Tribune photo: Madonna on stage with Oprah.
7:55 p.m. -- Beyonce (another one-name lady) has taken the stage and is performing for Oprah and the audience.
7:53 p.m. -- Actress Dakota Fanning is on stage with kids of all ages. The "Oprah Show Babie" thank Oprah for helping them with their self-esteem.
7:50 p.m. -- NBC actors Tina Fey and Steve Carell appear in a special video salute to Oprah.
There's also a video tribute from female soldiers in Iraq.
7:40 p.m. -- Madonna in the house! Oprah apparently had no idea. Madonna says Oprah is her role model (Madonna's feelings have apparently changed since she filmed 1991's Truth or Dare.)
|Madonna, right, hugs Oprah Winfrey as she appears during a star-studded double-taping of "Surprise Oprah! A Farewell Spectacular." (Charles Rex Arbogast, AP)
7:32 p.m. -- Patti LaBelle joins in, bringing the audience to their feet.
7:30 p.m. -- Josh Groban is there. He's singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
|Patti LaBelle and Josh Groban sing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
7:28 p.m. -- Tom Cruise is on stage. "I love seeing Oprah's face!" he said as he surprised her.
|Tom Cruise appears with Oprah Winfrey during a star-studded double-taping of "Surprise Oprah! A Farewell Spectacular" (Charles Rex Arbogast, AP)
7:25 p.m. -- Oprah says she's surrounded by love and thanks Chicago for 25 years.
7:20 p.m. -- Oprah, wearing a purple gown, is on stage with Tom Hanks to the music of The Black Eyed Peas.
|Tom Hanks consoles Oprah (Charles Rex Arbogast, AP)
7:17 p.m. -- The show begins!
7:12 p.m. -- The first show didn't start at 7 p.m., but that doesn't seem to have dampered any moods. The energy in the United Center is incredible.
7:10 p.m. -- It appears some people are hoping fans will shell out big bucks for the Oprah show. Check out these ticket offerings on Craiglist. (And we should note: buyer beware.)
7:04 p.m. -- Mayor Daley is all laughs and smiles. He's sitting with Maggie near the front of the stage, joking with Benny the Bull. Benny sat and hugged Maggie.
7: 00 p.m. -- More photos of Oprah's stage in the United Center from @iamBenLyons on Twitter and from the Chicago Tribune.
Oprah's use of the United Center moved the NBA Playoff game between the Chicago Bulls and the Miami Heat, but the players agreed: Oprah can do whatever she wants.
|Oprah's stage inside the United Center


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Product Review: eShave Orange Sandalwood Collection
I got a box in the mail from eShave and it contained the Orange Sandalwood Collection, which was comprised of three crucial components for an enjoyable shaving experience: Pre-Shave Oil, Shave Cream and After Cream Soother.
The Pre-Shave Oil was really thick, like a balm, rather than a cream type that a lot of companies use, and it softened the skin immediately. After a minute or two of applying a layer of the oil and then rubbing it in, I literally felt like I could shave even without the shaving cream — my skin was loosened up and felt soft. The pre-shave could've easily been a moisturizer. I wasn't surprised to learn that the Orange Sandalwood Pre-Shave Oil was named the Best Pre-Shave Oil of 2011 by Men's Health Magazine. The only thing I didn't like was the scent — Orange Sandalwood. It was too purfumey and was trying really hard to be equal parts aromatherapy and Pre-Shave Oil, when the latter was sufficient.
Speaking of thickness, the Shave Cream was exactly that — cream — not some crappy gel that would dry out the minute the air hit it. It was actually very similar to the shave cream offered by TwinLuxe that I reviewed a few weeks ago. Both were high quality and coated and protected your skin, greatly smoothing the act of shaving. Though I favored the TwinLuxe product, if you're on a tight budget, the eShave version is $22 for a 4 oz. bottle, while Twin Luxe charges $34 for a 5 oz. bottle. Both are very high quality and are vastly superior to any gel-based shaving cream on the market.
The After Shave Soother was probably my favorite of the three products I received from eShave. It was at least the one that distinguished itself the most from other similar products. So many after shaves on the market are not sufficient with just one application — after you put it on once, some of them even dry your skin out even further and you're forced to apply some lotion or an additional product. But the eShave version was thick without being gloppy and felt great. I only had to apply one coat and I was good; my skin wasn't dried out 15 minutes later, it was still firm and moist. It just felt good.
But seriously, the Pre-Shave Oil is so versatile that you could even use that as an after shave soother or post shave cream. It will leave your skin looking a little glossy and moist, so you may not want to use it before you go out. But it's easy to see why Men's Health was so enamored with it. The Sandalwood scent was a little much at times, particularly with the Pre Shave Oil and After Shave Soother. I like Sandalwood as a scent (I actually have a bar of sandalwood soap next to my sink right now), but felt like it was somewhat overpowering and unnecessary for a product that was already solid even without the added scent. Overall, eShave's shaving products put them on the top tier with any other big name product on the market.
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With the continuing massive success of Marvel's movie universe — culminating in "The Avengers" — and "The Dark Knight Rises," Hollywood isn't going to stop making superhero movies anytime soon. But for every hero who's ready for his or her close-up, there are a handful that we just can't see working on the big screen. The HitFix editorial staff narrowed down the list to 10 superheroes who really don't need their own movie.
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Jorge Rivera (19-8 MMA, 7-6 UFC) has made peace with the fact that he won't be fighting Alessio Sakara – again.
Would he agree to try once more after three meetings have been scratched for one reason or another?
"I'll fight whoever they ask, but it will be hard to get up for that fight again," Rivera, who now fights Constantinos Philippou (7-2 MMA, 0-1 UFC) at UFC 133, today told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio).
The two meet on the main card of UFC 133, which takes place Aug. 6 at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.
Rivera said he was around two weeks out from the fight when he got the bad news about Sakara, whom he'd been scheduled to face at UFC 118 and UFC 122 before injuries to both of them scrapped those plans. They gave him two choices for a replacement: Philippou, or Philippou's originally scheduled opponent, Rafael Natal.
Natal was a jiu-jitsu specialist, and Philippou liked the standup game from what Rivera could see. The choice was pretty easy.
"Luckily, he's similar to Sakara in the fact that he's a banger," Rivera said. "He likes to stand and trade and fight. So it's not too much of a difference in that aspect."
What wasn't a choice was withdrawing from the fight for a later booking. Following a loss to Michael Bisping – a meeting at UFC 127 that drew heavy controversy for Bisping's blatantly illegal knee – Rivera, 39, openly contemplated retirement from a career that's so far lasted a decade.
Even with this fight, those thoughts don't seem too far away. He's opening a gym in his hometown of Milford, Mass., that's entirely his own after an earlier gym venture with a partner went south. The gym will have everything: MMA, yoga, ballroom dancing, Zumba, you name it. That's going to take up a lot of time.
"I've got other things going on," Rivera said. "I'm opening up a business, and later on I might not be able to put in the time and effort to do so. I've got to take it while I can."
So win or lose, this could be the last time that fans see Jorge Rivera inside the octagon. But for the meantime, Rivera hopes to do what he likes to do best with Philippou – trade punches. Everything else is up for grabs.
For more on UFC 133, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
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Irene Pollin gives $10M to Hopkins cardiac center
Irene Pollin, the widow of the late Washington sports team owner Abe Pollin, has donated $10 million to a Johns Hopkins University center for the prevention of heart disease.
Hopkins announced Thursday that Pollin's gift will support the Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease in the division of cardiology.
Irene Pollin lost two children to heart ailments and is a longtime advocate of heart health. Abe Pollin, who died in 2009, owned the Washington Wizards and the Washington Capitals.
Irene Pollin's gift also establishes the Kenneth Jay Pollin Professorship in Cardiology, named for her 13-month-old son who died of a heart condition. Roger Blumenthal, Ciccarone Center director and professor of medicine at the university, will serve in that position.


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Burlington: Region 10 school district's budget increase is small
BURLINGTON >> Fruitful negotiations with the teachers' union have reportedly paid off in a small increase in the proposed Region 10 budget.
Superintendant of schools Alan Beitman presented his proposal on Monday night, following a two-week delay caused by the severe winter weather. Beitman's proposal calls for a total of $35,847,005, marking an increase of $305,973. However, the 0.86 percent increase -- which would be the lowest in the past 10 years -- could be itself increased if the Board of Education approves another proposed $212,600 in spending. If these line items are all approved, the resulting increase of 1.46 percent would still be the third-lowest proportional increase since 2004, following a 1.15 percent increase in 2008-09 and a 1.45 percent increase the following year.
"We're roughly looking at $212,000 in new funds in the budget," said Beitman.
The superintendant said that negotiations with the teachers' union helped him tamp down the proposed increase, continuing a trend towards increasingly flatter budgets. Since 2004, the largest proportional budget increase came in 2006-07, when the voters approved a 4.67 percent increase at a referendum. However, since 2007-08, the largest increase that voters have approved has been just 2.61 percent for the 2010-11 school year.
The proposal also could change due to external pressures, notably those from Hartford. Since the district is largely based in Burlington, which is in Hartford County, Region 10 could be impacted by Project CHOICE, which sends Hartford students to other schools in the county. The ongoing battle over magnet school and preschool programs could also shift more fiscal responsibility onto Region 10's shoulders. Beitman said that while the programs are educationally beneficial, they do result in more unfunded mandates.
"I'm not debating that these programs and services are a value," said Beitman.
These new spending items are prompted in part by changes in enrollment, as well as the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. Following this incident, Regional School District 10 hired the equivalent of four and one-half full-time security officers, immediately adding the expense to the 2012-13 budget. Retaining this personnel would add another $125,000 to the proposed budget, accounting for the majority of the new funds which have not yet been approved. These security personnel are now under the purview of school resource officer Gene Torrence, who Beitman said "now has a staff of four and a half people that he's in the process of supervising and training."
The new items up for review also include contributions to the Region 10 football program, a lathe for the technical education program and two new fifth-grade teachers. The latter positions were eliminated in the 2012-13 budget due to enrollment, but the new enrollment projections anticipate that the district will need to bring back two teachers. These teachers could be filled through internal transfers, Beitman said, although a new fifth-grade world language arts teacher -- at 12 hours per week -- would not be filled as easily.
Beitman also proposed a new reading teacher at Har-Bur Middle School for fifth- and sixth-grade classes. This new teacher would also be needed due to changing demographics, but not because of enrollment increases. Rather, Beitman said, the towns comprising Region 10 have changed from ones where people would move to start families to ones attracting families with young children. These children, Beitman continued, need more remedial support.
"We currently have one reading teacher at the middle school for four grades," said Beitman.
Beitman also proposed $1,000 to establish the Arthur Covey Mural Education Center. Covey was a renowned muralist, according to the superintendant, who resided in Harwinton during the summers. One of Covey's murals hangs in Harwinton Consolidated School, and the center -- a joint venture between the district, Harwinton residents and officials and the Harwinton Historical Society -- would work "to preserve and display the life and work of Arthur Covey," Beitman said.
"This is part of the heritage of Harwinton and part of the heritage of Region 10," Beitman continued. "It would be a shame to not preserve this."
The final referendum on the budget will be held on May 7, but the first review of Beitman's proposal should come much sooner. The Region 10 Board of Education will discuss the proposal on March 4, as well as during their regular meeting on March 11 and possibly during another special meeting on a Monday in March.
Reach Jason Siedzik at (860) 489-3121, ext. 321 or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/RCjsiedzik.


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UConn women top USF for 97th straight home win
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HARTFORD -- Connecticut's Tiffany Hayes is not on the list of the 20 women being considered for this year's John Wooden award, honoring the nation's top college basketball player.
She's certainly playing like a candidate.
Hayes followed up Wednesday's 35-point game against Syracuse with 33 points and 10 rebounds Saturday to lead No. 3 Connecticut to its 97th consecutive home win, 77-62 over South Florida.
"I don't think there are 20 players in the country that I would rather have than Tiffany," said UConn coach Geno Auriemma. "And If she played somewhere else, she'd be averaging 35 points every night."
Her 68 points are the most ever by a Husky in back-to-back games. It was her 10th consecutive game in double figures and 18th this season.
"I definitely want to be that player that people can look up to and say, 'OK, she's going to get it done for us,'" said Hayes, who dedicated her performance to former UConn football player Jasper Howard, a friend who was stabbed to death on campus in October 2009. It was his birthday Saturday.
Stefanie Dolson tied a season high with 22 points and added 18 rebounds for UConn (19-2, 8-1 Big East).
Caitlin Rowe had a career-high 20 points and Inga Orekhova added 16 for South Florida (12-10, 4-4).
The win was the 790th in UConn coach Geno Auriemma's career, moving him past Georgia's Andy Landers and into sole possession of sixth place on the all-time list.
Connecticut was up by just one point early in the second half before using a 17-5 run to take control. A three-point play by Hayes helped spark the run, turning a 38-37 lead into a 55-42 advantage with just under 12 minutes to play. Her rebound was the fourth by the Huskies during that sequence.
UConn outrebounded USF 53-28, had 20 offensive boards and outscored the Bulls 32-16 in the paint.
"Coach challenged the bigs to be what we are, which is a big," Dolson said. "I came out today just really focusing on rebounding, really being strong out there, finishing inside, which I really didn't do a great job of, but I knocked in some jump shots."
Rose hit a 3-pointer to cut UConn's lead to 64-53 with 4 1/2 minutes left, but another 3-pointer from Hayes stretched the lead back out and gave her 32 points.
She scored her 33rd point a short time later on a free throw after a technical foul was called on a USF coach Jose Fernandez. It was a physical game with 34 fouls -- and UConn's Kelly Faris and South Florida's Tiffany Conner both fouled out.
Dolson had eight of UConn's first 10 points as the Huskies worked to get the ball inside early.
But UConn had a hard time shaking the Bulls. Orekhova, who had 13 of her points in the first half, scored seven straight to turn a 14-10 deficit into a 17-14 South Florida lead. A 3-pointer became a four-point play when she was fouled by Kelly Faris, and she followed that up with another long 3.
UConn responded with a 12-0 run and led by nine points before South Florida responded again. Another Orekhova 3-pointer keyed an 11-2 Bulls run that stretched into the second half and cut UConn's lead to 36-35.
"I really like this group," said Fernandez. "I think this group competes."
Hayes and Dolson made 10 of their 14 shots in the first half. The rest of the Huskies were 4 of 16.
Hayes moved into 13th place on the school's all-time scoring list with 1,589 points, passing Swin Cash (1,583).
Caroline Doty returned to the Huskies' lineup after missing Wednesday's game against Syracuse with a sore left knee, which she bruised in a game against DePaul. Doty has had that knee surgically repaired three times since high school.
Connecticut has not lost at home since the finals of the 2007 Big East tournament, and has won 59 consecutive regular-season Big East games at home.
The Huskies also have won 172 straight games against unranked teams. But their next game is on the road against a ranked foe as they travel to Durham, N.C., to face No. 5 Duke on Monday night.
The loss wraps up a tough stretch for South Florida, which has faced a ranked opponent five times in its last seven games. The Bulls lost to Georgetown, Louisville and Rutgers during the stretch, but beat then-ranked DePaul and unranked Seton Hall. The Bulls head home to face West Virginia on Wednesday.