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Behind the Mask
Antonio Banderas opens up on marriage, politics and his best roles.
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Antonio Banderas, Nov/Dec 2005
It's a noticeably somber morning at the Banderas household. Actually, it's just one of actor Antonio Banderas' five households—the one in Marbella, Spain—and, with an international news program tuned to the horror of Hurricane Katrina playing in the background, Banderas has just seen his nine-year-old daughter, Stella, back off to the States for the start of another school year. Even with Banderas' wife (and Stella's mother), actress Melanie Griffith, already in Los Angeles and waiting to pick up the nine-year-old, Banderas is visibly upset at his daughter's leaving. "I won't sleep or rest easy, you know, until I get a telephone call saying that she's arrived safely and that everyone's okay," Banderas admits. "It's very hard to be separated from family, from the people you love. They are," he says simply, "my life." This life that Banderas refers to is an interesting phenomenon, a complicated animal that he has managed to straddle competently, if not completely tame. Influenced equally by Europe and America, it is a complex blend of personas, myths and realities—not to mention languages, cultures and time zones—that would have a weaker man mumbling about multiple personality disorder. Of course, this may also be part of Banderas' global allure; how can an audience get bored with an artist whose work—and choices—can't be predicted? He's an avowed family man who, routinely labeled a "Latin Lover," has made movies opposite some of Hollywood's most beautiful women that barely escape the term "soft porn." He's headlined G-rated children's films and voiced animated characters aimed at children Stella's age but perhaps is best known for action-adventure flicks where he wields swords, kicks butts and rarely bothers to take a name. In Spanish or English.
Banderas is a very male male—muy masculino in his native Spanish—but with a feminine side strong enough to routinely assume effeminate or gay roles convincing enough to earn him GLAAD awards and lust-object status among a number of gay websites.
His marriage to Griffith—his second, her fourth—has seen its share of tabloid press for everything from her time in rehab for prescription drug abuse (true) to his-and-hers affairs (both claim false) and trial separations (true). Still, they've been married nearly 10 years, are routinely touted in the press as the next Hollywood couple to go the distance and, in case anyone wants to know how Griffith keeps her rather press-shy man, she's glad to offer tips to the media and her fans via news bites and a website. Latest news bulletin? Pole dancing.
He is a citizen of Spain who knows more about American history and American politics than most of the people voting in November elections. He is an accomplished musician and singer who refuses to record an entire album and an actor who professes to be extraordinarily shy about filming love scenes but doesn't use a body double when it comes to nudity.
He admits to jealousy as a character trait even as he rails against it in a relationship. He has won 19 acting awards and been nominated for another 17 from prestigious organizations all over the world, but he refused the Spanish Academy's gold medal award the first time it was proffered because he felt he was too young in the industry to accept it.
It wasn't until 2004, and only following his Tony award nomination for Best Actor (Musical) for his stage performance in Nine that he accepted Spain's equivalent of an Oscar awarded "to recognize the actor's work in spreading Spanish culture throughout his prolific international career."
That Banderas' international career has been prolific can't be denied. For a man who turned 45 on August 10 ("Melanie says I'm not forty-five," he jokes, "I'm thirty-fifteen"), he has more than 70 acting projects on his resume. All in all, pretty impressive for a young man from Malaga, Spain, who, until age 14, dreamed only of a potential career playing his beloved soccer.
"I think I was too young to ever really think about playing professionally for the Federation...I played because I loved it. But it's also true that I wasn't all that bad," Banderas grins, "and I probably could have become a professional soccer player but I [was] injured while playing and I broke my left foot in several parts. Now? Now I am a spectator. I love soccer and I follow the matches and several teams that I like—the national team and Team Malaga, my hometown team that I am always behind—but I think that it would be impossible to find someone who doesn't like soccer."
That professional soccer just isn't as big in the U.S. as it is in Europe is a mystery to Banderas but then, as a boy, so was the lure of acting until he saw a performance of Hair in the year following the broken foot. Suddenly, the young Banderas had a new goal that didn't involve a ball; it involved a stage.
Born Jose Antonio Dominguez Bandera, the eldest son of a school- teacher and a police comisario, Banderas' interest in acting and the desire to attend Malaga's School of Dramatic Art came as a bit of a shock to the traditional Bandera household. He did the requisite classical training which resulted in tours throughout Spain in small productions until 1980, when, at age 19 and with almost no money in his pocket, he moved to Madrid with the intention of getting serious about his career. He joined the National Drama Center in Madrid, worked as a waiter and model to support himself, and anticipated being "the guy in the fifth row holding a sword" for many years to come.
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It seems like a rather ragged version of the Eastern cut-off. He is jumping away from us.
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Ninety years after Henry Ford decreed that all Model T's would be painted black, most automobile buyers still wait months for a custom order. Today, Ford Motor Co. is working hard to shorten that wait. The goal is not just to make customers happier and thereby acquire more of them, but to manage revenue to ensure the company makes as much money as possible on each car it sells.
The stakes are high. Ford's revenue-management strategy is a vital part of the troubled company's turnaround plans. "It has played a major role in our profit improvement in North America, especially compared with our domestic competitors," says Lloyd Hansen, vice president of revenue management. "Our success comes from an intense focus on providing value to our customers."
While Ford is not the only automaker targeting consumer car preferences, it is the only one with a vice president heading a unit on revenue management. Ford is also notable for its combination of three technology tools to sell the right car with the right mix of features to the right customer at the right price. It uses one tool to determine the car with the optimum package of features most likely to appeal to consumers in a specific market. Another tool, pricing software technology from Manugistics (J.D. Power, I2, and Trilogy offer similar products), determines which sales-promotion campaign should be offered on each car in each market. A third tool puts Ford dealers in the driver's seat to order the inventory most likely to wheel off their lots.
With this knowledge in hand, Ford can gear its production, sales, and marketing to get the biggest bang for the buck. "There is a clear link between what customers want and what we build," says Hansen. "The problem has been finding it."
Ford believes revenue management is that missing link. "Revenue management has the most leverage in industries with low profit margins. That's what makes it so critical in the auto industry, where pretax profit margins have historically averaged only about 3 percent," says Hansen. "If better pricing tools and processes can improve revenue by just 1 percent, and raise historical margins to 4 percent, bottom-line profits would grow by 33 percent. Because the improvement is essentially all cash, the increase in cash flow and market value is even higher. Very small improvements in revenue can have a huge impact on bottom-line results."
After phasing in its revenue-management strategy, the Dearborn, Michigan-based auto giant's per-unit revenue (average price net of any incentives) was up $699 (year-over-year) in the first half of 2003, while virtually every other carmaker's per-unit revenue was down. And even with the improvement in revenue, Ford has held its own on market share compared with its domestic competitors. Ford's retail market share through July was 18.7 percent—down three-tenths of a point. This compares with a decline of six-tenths of a point at General Motors Corp. and one point at Chrysler, according to R.L. Polk & Co., a Southfield, Michigan-based provider of automotive intelligence.


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The Children of Kings
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Marion Zimmer Bradley - Author
Deborah J. Ross - Author
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Although the Terran Federation has departed Darkover due to a nasty interstellar civil war, the planet's location in the galactic arm makes it a prime hideout for smugglers, rebels, and other refugees. When smugglers start arming the warlike Dry Towners with forbidden weapons, Gareth Elhalyn, grandson of Regis Hastur and heir to the throne, takes off on a secret mission to stop them...
Chapter 1
The disk of Darkover's Bloody Sun had barely risen beyond the walls and towers of Thendara, and icy chill still haunted the shadows. A brisk wind swept the sky clear of clouds. The branches of the trees in the gardens of the Old Town trembled. Lavender and white blossoms unfurled amid the new leaves. The air no longer smelled of old layered ice and sodden wool, but of fresh growing things.
The roads had been open for a tenday, even as far as the Kilghard Hills. Traders reached the city, bringing goods and gossip. The open-air markets offered spring onions and an array of early fruits, a welcome change from boiled roots and porridge.
The rising sun lit the ancient castle of the Comyn where it stood like a city unto itself, with its walls and spires, domes and courtyards, the barracks and training yards of the City Guard, and ballrooms and living quarters for the ruling families when they were in town. A crowd gathered outside the main gates. Their mood was festive, the dark hues of winter garb brightened by garlands of early-blooming ice lilies.
The gates swung open, and a contingent of City Guards came out, clearing an open path. Then came more armed men, mounted on sturdy horses. People waved and someone played a lilting air on a wooden flute. The leader of the Guards smiled and nodded, although his gaze never stopped moving across the assembly, and one hand remained on the hilt of his sword.
Just inside the gates, a second, much smaller group gathered, household servants and a scattering of richly dressed Comyn lords and ladies. In the center of the courtyard, a party of riders mounted up. The horses stamped and snorted, their breath turning into plumes of white vapor. Servants and baggage handlers finished securing the coverings on a laden wagon.
From the shelter of an arched, deep-set Castle doorway, Gareth Marius-Danvan Elhalyn y Hastur watched the preparations for leave-taking. The slanting morning light touched his hair, which had darkened from childhood flaxen to red-gold, and the fine planes of his face, reflecting the compelling masculine beauty of his lineage. His cloak, although of soft lambswool, bore no badge or identifying mark, neither the blue-and-silver fir tree of his Hastur father nor the tree and crown of his royal Elhalyn mother. Neither of his parents was present, having passed the winter at Elhalyn Castle with his younger brother and sister. He was not alone, for he was rarely unattended, either by Castle Guards, personal servants, or the courtiers who lived in Thendara or had journeyed here as soon as the roads were open. Ordinarily, he was so well guarded that he had never yet had occasion to use the sword hanging at his belt except in daily practice. Today, however, no one attempted to draw him into conversation. Perhaps the early hour caused his presence to go unnoticed.
The foremost rider was a man of middle years, the gold of his hair laced lightly with frost. Like the woman beside him, he wore warm, brightly colored travel clothing. His fur-lined cloak draped over the rump of his horse, one of the fabled Armida blacks. He smiled and lifted one hand in greeting to the crowd beyond the gates. They shouted and clapped.
"Dom Mikhail! The Regent!"
The woman colored a little. Her horse, a gray of the same fine breeding as her husband's, pranced and pulled at the bit. She quieted the horse with a touch, and as she did so, the hood of her cloak slipped from her head, revealing a crown of feather-soft, coppery hair.
A sigh swept the crowd outside. The cheers diminished into whispers of awe.
"Lady Marguerida . . ."
Mikhail Lanart-Hastur gave his wife a crooked smile. "They cheer me, but you they offer greater honor. I don't know whether to be relieved or proud."
A trick of the acoustics in the courtyard carried their voices to where Gareth stood. He felt as if he were eavesdropping on a private family conversation and wished he hadn't come. He pressed his back against the stone doorway.
"I wish they wouldn't," Marguerida Alton replied in a low voice. "I'd much rather be respected for what I've achieved than for the color of my hair. We can't take a simple vacation without all this fuss."
"It's gratitude, preciosa."
"Mik, the Trailmen's Fever was two years ago!"
"Darkovans have long memories. Ah, Nico!" Mikhail smiled broadly as his eldest son and heir approached.
At twenty-two, Domenic Alton-Hastur was just a few years older than Gareth. By Comyn standards, he was simply dressed, a jacket crossed by the Alton tartan, and trousers tucked into swordsman's boots. He laid one hand on the black's glossy shoulder, looked up at his father, and said with a perfectly serious expression, "It's not too late to change your minds and turn back from this insanity."
"Nico!" Marguerida exclaimed, then laughed. "Not us leaving, but you staying to run this place—that's the real insanity!"
"The Castle is in good hands." One corner of Mikhail's mouth twitched. "I have no concerns on that score. We're in your debt for making it possible for your mother and me to get away at the same time. It's been far too long since all of us—most of us, anyway—were together at Armida."
A peculiar sensation, part ache, part something else, tightened Gareth's chest. He had never doubted the love his own parents had for him, but neither they nor anyone else in a position of power had ever trusted him as much as Mikhail trusted Domenic. It did no good to reiterate that Domenic was older, that he had been trained since childhood to assume the Regency, in addition to the discipline of his season in a Tower.
He has real work, work that matters. Nobody thinks of him as a useless ceremonial appendage.
Yet Gareth could not summon even a shred of resentment against his cousin. Neither of them could help their birth.
He will be Regent and I, the uncrownable King. As Grandfather Regis used to say, if we had wanted another destiny, we should have chosen different parents.
Meanwhile, Mikhail had nudged his horse forward and addressed the throng outside the gates. Pitching his voice to reach to the edges of the crowd, he thanked them and wished them a joyful spring and a bountiful early crop.
"I leave you in the care of my son and heir, Domenic Lanart-Hastur, and his equally capable advisors. I warn you, however, that he is a far sterner taskmaster than I." At this, everyone laughed. "I bid you farewell until the summer Festival season!"
Mikhail signaled to the Guard captain to proceed. The crowd pulled back as they approached, heading for the road to the Alton family estate at Armida. Marguerida glanced back toward the castle.
"He'll be fine," Mikhail said. "Danilo will send word at the least hint of trouble."
Lifting her chin, she nudged the gray forward until she was even with her husband. The party clattered over the paved street to renewed cheers, and the gates swung shut behind them. The onlookers began to disperse, servants hurrying back to their duties. The nobles milled around, exchanging comments and making sure they were seen as people of importance.
Gareth's stomach rumbled, reminding him that he had not taken more than a cup of water since arising. Perhaps Domenic, now talking with one of the Castle Guards, might be persuaded to breakfast with him.
One of the minor lords brushed against Gareth's cloak and drew back, clearly startled. "Your pardon, vai dom! How clumsy of me. I did not notice you standing there!"
Gareth schooled his features into a blandly pleasant smile. There was no point in telling the man to think nothing of it. Even though the Castle was echoingly empty, gossip spread like a Hellers wildfire.
"Gareth Elhalyn went to see the Regent and Domna Marguerida off, can you believe it?"
"Oh, yes, I bumped into him. He was looking very pale indeed."
"Well, what do you expect—he's an Elhalyn! He's probably terrified of his own shadow. They're all feebleminded when they aren't insane, the whole nest of them. Remember Prince Derik, a generation ago? As simpleminded as they come. And that business with Gareth after Regis died! You don't suppose he's losing what little sanity he ever possessed . . ."
No, his best hope was to avoid a conversation entirely. He inclined his head and murmured, "Excuse me."
Gareth reached Domenic just as the Guardsman bowed and took his leave.
"Good morning, cousin!" Domenic said with a friendly nod.
Gareth's grandfather, the legendary Regis Hastur, had been brother to Domenic's Grandmother Javanne. In his youth, Regis had formally adopted her son, Mikhail, as his heir, trained him for leadership, and kept his promise even when his own son, Gareth's father, was born. Dani Hastur had chosen a private life over one of public display, so the Regency now passed from Mikhail to Domenic.
"A good morning for everyone, I hope." Then, feeling he ought to explain his presence, Gareth added, "I came to wish your parents a safe and speedy journey." The words sounded pretentious, as if the difficulties of the road were subject to his amendment. They had no need of my wishes. Half of Thendara came to cheer them. Why would they pay any attention to me, who did not even speak to them?
Before Gareth could untangle his thoughts, they were joined by an older man who carried himself with the unconscious vigilance of a longtime paxman. Danilo Syrtis-Ardais was the namesake of Gareth's father and had been his grandfather's bredu, a term that meant "sworn brother," but in this case carried more intimate connotations as well, and to this day remained his grandmother's close friend. Danilo acted as Domenic's mentor and advisor when he was not traveling about the Domains in search of latent telepaths.
"Tío Danilo!" Gareth came, somewhat shyly, into Danilo's fatherly embrace. They hadn't seen each other since the last performance of Marguerida's opera. Danilo lived in his quarters in the Castle when he wasn't traveling, while Gareth occupied the townhouse that had belonged to Regis.
Danilo thumped Gareth on the shoulder. "You've been regular in your sword practice."
Gareth never knew how to respond to such comments. Did Danilo really think him such a sluggard? Even the most indolent prince must be seen to uphold the tradition of military training. He sparred, he rode, and he racked his brains trying to master both Darkovan and Federation languages. Danilo had encouraged him, as did Grandmother Linnea.
"Good lad." Danilo turned to Domenic, and Gareth caught the edge of a telepathic question.
Is there more, Nico . . . you sensed . . . ?
Domenic's eyes narrowed, the movement so subtle that if Gareth had not sensed Danilo's inquiry, he would not have noticed it.
. . . earth tremors . . .
Gareth's surprise almost betrayed him. Until recent times, each Domain possessed a characteristic psychic Gift. Now the Gifts no longer bred true, and new ones arose unexpectedly. Domenic's was one such, the ability to sense geological conditions, although not even Domenic knew whether what he felt arose from the crustal layers or deep within the planet. Perhaps the Gift was genetically linked to his dark hair, unusual for the offspring of a blond and a redhead.
Earth tremors, Gareth repeated to himself. He had studied a little planetology but could not remember any references to seismic activity in the Domains.
As if in answer to Gareth's thought, Domenic pitched his voice low and bent toward Danilo. Gareth caught a few phrases: "Superficial . . . could be impact . . . if I didn't know otherwise . . ."
". . . not the Federation . . . no signals . . . Jeram's radio project . . ."
Gareth knew of the Terranan renegade, Jeremiah Reed, who had remained on Darkover when the Federation departed and had taken the name Jeram. Their paths had not crossed, except for public events like the Midsummer Festival ball. Jeram had set up a radio listening post, using the abandoned equipment at the old Federation Headquarters.
"Let me know . . . happens again." Danilo turned and nodded to Gareth in much the same way Gareth might dismiss a child. The two men headed for the city gate, heads inclined together, voices low.
Gareth schooled his features to reflect nothing of what he felt. He should be used to such treatment. If he ever expected to be taken seriously, to be treated with respect, then he himself must behave in a responsible manner.
"Your Highness? Is anything amiss?"
Gareth's attention snapped to his immediate surroundings. Two courtiers peered at him from a respectful distance. One of them, a Vistarin of Temora, was newly arrived in Thendara and had not yet built a reputation. The man had a little money from his family's salt trade and not a trace of laran. His companion, on the other hand, had been a minor fixture in Comyn society for as long as Gareth could remember. Stout and dressed unflatteringly in fur-trimmed yellow satin, Octavien MacEwain was always trying to insinuate himself into Gareth's confidence.
"I was merely contemplating the vastly reduced evening amusements without Domna Marguerida's musical compositions," Gareth said with deliberately affected blandness. "Lady Bruna was the jewel of the season."
"Her absence leaves us all poorer," the Vistarin lord said.
"And yet . . ." Octavien cut in smoothly, "within every disappointment lies opportunity."
Octavien's features betrayed nothing of his purpose, but Gareth had grown up in the treacherous and convoluted world of Comyn politics. What Octavien meant was that the absence of the Regent would be an excellent time for Gareth to assert his claim to the throne. Next, he would suggest that although no one had anything to say against young Domenic, the Council would surely support a legitimate king over a mere Regent's son. The Regency, begun two generations ago by Danvan Hastur, was never intended as a permanent transfer of power.
He thinks I'm sane enough to be crowned and weak enough to be controlled.
"Oh," Gareth said airily, "I'm sure we can all find something with which to amuse ourselves." With a suitably arrogant lift of his chin, he turned and headed for the nearest exit, which happened to be the gate leading to the city.
Not ten paces beyond the Castle walls, Gareth realized he was shaking. The back of his throat tasted of stomach acid, and his temples throbbed. The thought of food nauseated him, but he ought to eat something. Grandmother Linnea would know the moment he arrived for his lesson if he neglected the most basic self-care.
Gareth paused at a corner food stall where a red-cheeked woman stood over a small copper pot set on a portable brazier. The pot gave off the tantalizing aromas of sweet oil and fried dough. The clawing sensation at the back of Gareth's throat eased. His mouth watered, and his spirits lifted.
The woman used a long wooden skewer to fish out braided, palm-wide pastries, which she rolled in crystallized honey before placing them, steaming and fragrant, on a cooling rack.
"Apple buns, fine sir?"
Gareth bought two, wrapped in paper. Beneath the crisp shell, the buns were moist with bits of fruit and lightly seasoned with spicebark. The taste reminded him of Midwinter Festival treats. The apples had probably been stored since last fall, and the resourceful baker had carved out every useful bit.
From the dregs comes treasure.
"Vai dom," came a man's voice, heavy with long-suffering forbearance. "If you please, you should not be here alone."
Here meant out in the open, mingling with the populace. Alone meant without his bodyguard.
Nursemaid would be more like it.
Irritation flared, fueled by smoldering resentment. Gareth immediately regretted both. Narsin had served the Elhalyn family since before Domna Miralys, Gareth's mother, was born. The old man would have given his life for any one of them and did not deserve to be the target of Gareth's foul temper.
"I am sorry if my impulsiveness caused you distress," Gareth said. "As you see, I am in no danger. Truly, it was not necessary for you to leave the house at such an hour simply because I wished to stretch my legs on this fine morning."
Cragged brows tensed. The old man set his lips together, but Gareth understood his meaning.
It is neither safe nor seemly for the heir to the crown of the Seven Domains to be wandering around without an escort. Don't tell me you can defend yourself as well as the next man. Even a swordmaster can be taken unawares.
So Narsin had said a hundred times. Even as a boy, Gareth understood that an ordinary man had more freedom than a prince. And a prince who had once made a fool of himself in front of the Comyn Council must accept the consequences of his actions: suspicion and constant surveillance.
"Very well, then," Gareth said, "but don't hover at my elbow, glaring at every passer-by. There are no World Wreckers abroad this morning."
Without waiting for a response, Gareth headed back toward Comyn Castle, but slowly enough so that the old man could easily keep pace. It was early for his lesson with Grandmother Linnea, but he badly wanted to be off the streets. At the moment, he felt he'd had all he could tolerate of being watched over and whispered about.
There were no longer any World Wreckers, or any saboteurs, undercover agents, or Federation forces of any sort remaining on Darkover. Except, of course, the very few, like Jeram, who had stayed behind out of loyalty to Darkover when the Terrans withdrew their forces.
Gareth lifted his face to the sky, trying to imagine what it must be like out there, in the vast reaches of space. Darkover was an insignificant planet, considered irredeemably primitive by the Federation. Only its strategic location on the galactic arm, and then later its potential for exploitation, had granted it any status. Even that could not justify the Terranan presence once the Federation erupted into interstellar war.
What was going on up there? Who was winning, who losing? Darkover had had few enough allies in the Senate, even before the war. And will they ever come back?
When they do, we will be ready for them. So Gareth had sworn more times than he could count. Now the words sounded hollow. If the Federation returned, with its advanced technological weapons, determined to seize whatever it wanted, who could stop them? And how?
Since childhood, Gareth had been drilled in the importance of the Compact, the ancient code of honor that forbade the use of any weapon that did not bring the wielder within equal risk. In many ways, the Compact was the soul of Darkover, of the Domains, anyway. The Dry Towns had never sworn to it, but their inhabitants did not possess laran.
Laran. As the rambling complex of walls and towers of Comyn Castle came into view, Gareth tried to imagine a world without laran. Darkover was unique in the strength and prevalence of psychic powers, powers that, when amplified by the psychoactive matrices called starstones, were capable of everything from sensing the emotions of another, to healing mind and body, to charging batteries that could light a castle or power an airship . . . or bring one crashing down.
The Terranan had thought the Compact the superstition of a primitive race. They had not realized it was aimed not at their own technology but at the far more devastating weaponry of the mind.
Once, Gareth had been taught, laran warfare had raged unchecked across the face of Darkover. Many of the techniques had been lost, and most people thought it better that way.
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Here's your Monday breakdown of all the SEC action from the weekend. These are the key stats from and our impressions of each ballgame.
All in one great big post.
Florida 38, Kentucky 0 in Gainesville
Key Stat: 60 yards. Kentucky came into the game boasting the SEC's best pass offense. But with starting QB Maxwell Smith on the shelf with a bum shoulder, backup Morgan Newton had to fill his shoes. He couldn't. In fact, Newton finished just 7-of-21 for 48 yards passing, no touchdowns and three interceptions on the day. I suspect even some Gator fans felt sorry for UK's signal-caller.
Quick Takes:
* The win was the 26th in a row for Florida over Kentucky. That's the longest active streak going in the Southeastern Conference.
* Florida isn't exactly fast out of the gate. Through four games the Gators have scored just 17 first-quarter points. They've scored 105 points in the the other 12 quarters combined. How far things have come for Will Muschamp since halftime of the Texas A&M game, too. At that point, the Gators looked like an extension of last year's 7-6 team. But since then, UF has moved to 4-0 and jumped all the way to #12 in one poll, #11 in the other.
* Woe is Joker Phillips. It's pretty hard to imagine him surviving the season.
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Ole Miss 39, Tulane 0 in New Orleans
Key Stat: 3-1. That's Ole Miss record through four games and that's one more win than the Rebels notched in 2010 and in 2011. Hugh Freeze has done more than we at MrSEC.com expected with a withered roster. Unfortunately, conference play begins with a game at Alabama on Saturday and reality might set in when Mississippi starts tangling with SEC defenses. Whether that's the case or not, Freeze deserves credit for some fine early work.
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* If we hadn't gone with UM's record as our key stat, we'd have used this one: 304-14. That was the rushing advantage Ole Miss held over Tulane at game's end. The Rebels averaged 5.7 yards per carry on Saturday. The Green Wave? Try 0.5 yards per carry. Fourteen yards on 29 rushes.
South Carolina 31, Missouri 10 in Columbia (SC)
Key Stat: 20-of-21. When you complete 20 passes in a row, you're entering record-setting territory and that was the case for Carolina quarterback Connor Shaw. Not bad for a guy with a bum shoulder. Shaw's 20-of-21 performance for 249 yards and two touchdowns squelched the tiny blip of a quarterback controversy that arose when some Cock fans began to see Dylan Thompson as the passer, Shaw as the runner. Well, Carolina's running quarterback was so consistent on Saturday that he'll have a chance to set a new SEC record for consecutive completions over multiple games next week in Lexington. If he completes five passes to start the game, he'll move past ex-Tennessee quarterback Tee Martin who set the mark at 24 back in 1999.
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* Marcus Lattimore — just a junior — moved past Harold Green and former Heisman Trophy winner George Rogers on USC's all-time rushing touchdown leaderboard. He now owns the school record with 33 TDs on the ground. He's managed to accomplish that feat in just 24 ballgames as well as he missed one game in 2010 and about half the season in 2011 due to injuries.
* Missouri is learning the hard way that the SEC really is a different league than the Big XII. Granted, they've played two of the best defenses in the conference so far in Georgia and Carolina, but the disrespect mantra Tiger players and coaches have been repeating all offseason must be giving way to a sense of reality. Gary Pinkel will need to recruit bigger linemen. They'll need a top-notch SEC running back. His systems won't need to change, but his personnel will. There's a reason the SEC has produced more NFL draft picks than any other conference over the last 25 years.
* When this writer first blasted Missouri's new Nike uniforms — especially the Tigers "paintball" helmet — I was told to hush up because that black-with-big-yellow-splat/Tiger-on-it number would only be worn once a year. So far, it's been worn in both of Mizzou's SEC contests. And it's still ugly.
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Alabama 40, Florida Atlantic 7 in Tuscaloosa
Key Stat: 110 yards. That's all Florida Atlantic could muster against Alabama's suffocating defense. Rushing: 76 yards. Passing: 34 yards. That's it. So it's probably safe to say the Owls didn't have as much speed as they thought.
Quick Takes:
* Alabama gave up a touchdown on the fourth quarter of Saturday's contest. It was the first score by an opponent against the Tide since the opener against Michigan at the first of the month. Alabama's defense was unscored upon for 192 minutes which was the longest streak in the FBS level since 2004.
* Bama has Ole Miss next, followed by road trips to Missouri and Tennessee, then a home game against Mississippi State before traveling to Baton Rouge and a date with LSU on November 3rd. Anything can happen, but it's hard to picture the Crimson Tide not crossing the Louisiana state line with a perfect record.
LSU 12, Auburn 10 in Auburn
Key Stat: 9 and 2. If you're wondering how #2 LSU could struggle with an Auburn team that needed overtime to beat Louisiana-Monroe the week before, look at those numbers: 9 and 2. Nine penalties for 80 yards and two turnovers (both fumbles). While the Tigers are an unscathed 4-0 overall, they have been making more than their share of mistakes this season. Three times they've turned the ball over at or near their opponent's goalline. Two words: Achilles' heel.
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* LSU still dominated Auburn in the box score 351 yards to 183 yards. Auburn passed for just 97 yards (with two more picks from quarterback Kiehl Frazier) and rushed for only 86. It's really amazing the game finished as close as it did.
* Here at MrSEC.com, our thoughts go out to the family of Auburn student assistant coach Joe Bagwell. The 23-year-old died unexpectedly before Saturday's game.
Rutgers 35, Arkansas 26 in Fayetteville
Key Stat: 525 yards. That's the amount of offense Rutgers amassed in Fayetteville on Saturday. John L. Smith will get the blame for a season gone awry (blame should really go to Bobby Petrino). A concussion to Tyler Wilson probably cost the Razorbacks their game with Louisiana-Monroe. But the real problem in the Natural State so far this season has been the Hogs' lack of defense. Despite playing Jacksonsville State, Louisiana-Monroe and Rutgers in three of its first four games, Arkansas' defense ranks 101st in the nation allowing more than 1,800 yards to date. Horrific.
Quick Takes:
* Back on September 11th we wrote: "But if the Razorbacks lose to Alabama on Saturday — with or without Wilson — the wheels could start to come off John L. Smith's bus." Consider the wheels now officially off. After an upset loss to ULM, the only preseason goal the Hogs had left to play for was an SEC title. The 52-point shellacking they took from Bama ended those hopes. And that's left a lot of guys with nothing to play for but pride. And when teams have nothing to play for but pride, bad things often happen. Like quitting. And this team appears to have thrown in the towel.
Texas A&M 70, South Carolina State 14
Key Stat: 10. That's how many touchdowns Texas A&M dropped on tiny South Carolina State of the FCS. Five rushing TDs. Three more through the air. A punt return. And an interception return for the final score. Congratulations on wolfing down a cupcake.
Quick Takes:
* After another impressive performance, redshirt freshman quarterback Johnny Manziel is now completing better than 67% of his passes on the season. Even more impressive — his touchdown to interception ration is 7-0 at this point. And, oh yeah, he's also rushed for 262 yards and five touchdowns.
Mississippi State 30, South Alabama 10 in Starkville
Key Stat: 9 yards. That was the difference in total offense between 4-0 MSU and 1-3 South Alabama. The Bulldogs outgained the Jaguars 356 to 347 as they won another unimpressive game over another unimpressive creampuff. Dan Mullen says his team has yet to play a complete ballgame and it's hard to argue that point. Just a week ago State slipped by Troy 30-24 and gave up 572 yards in the process.
Quick Takes:
* MSU might not have the most impressive resume in the country, but the Bulldogs do boast an opportunistic defense. Through four games State has recorded 15 takeaways. In fact, the Dogs' plus-13 turnover margin ranks second best in all of college football.
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Georgia 48, Vanderbilt 3 in Athens
Key Stat: 130 yards. Freshman tailback Todd Gurley continued his hot streak rushing for 130 yards on 16 carries (for an 8.1 yards-per-carry average) and scored two more touchdowns. So much for missing Isaiah Crowell. Gurley leads the SEC in rushing with 101.5 yards per game and a 9.23 yards-per-carry average.
Quick Takes:
* UGA has put up 45 points (Buffalo), 41 points (Missouri), 56 points (Florida Atlantic) and 48 points (Vanderbilt) in its first four games. That marks the first time in the history of Georgia football that the Dawgs have scored 40 or more in four straight contests.
* Jordan Rodgers got the start at quarterback for Vanderbilt in what was a surprise move. Austyn Carta-Samuels had gone the whole way the previous week against Presbyterian, robbing Rodgers of a chance to gain some momentum or some confidence. That was a bizarre move by James Franklin who's said he will base each game's starter on the previous week's practice sessions until someone claims the job with authority.
Georgia – Vanderbilt Video Highlights
Tennessee 47, Akron 26 in Knoxville
Key Stat: 30-26. That was the score at Neyland Stadium with just 12-and-a-half minutes remaining in Saturday's game. Tennessee tacked on 17 more points to win by a grand total of 21, but the Vols simply could not put away the 1-3 Zips until late.
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* While the score was close, the Volunteers actually dominated in the stat sheet. UT had 633 yards of offense to Akron's 344. The Vols passed for 401 yards while the Zips threw for 229. Derek Dooley's team even managed to rush for 232 yards as compared to Akron's 115. But two Tennessee turnovers — including a pick-six interception off of QB Tyler Bray — led to 10 of the Zips' 26 points.


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If the Everly Brothers liked each other, their shows would be a lot like the one co-hosted by Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale at the Birchmere on Tuesday, as the two career-long second fiddles spent a night sharing the spotlight.
It's the first road trip together for the duo, who told the crowd that they met 33 years ago in a bar and initially bonded over a shared love of George Jones. Since then, Miller, 60, has become sort of an American version of Richard Thompson, a musician's musician with a distinctive alt-country and blues voice and a signature guitar sound that's heavy on tremolo and low-note bends. Yet for all his gifts, his career has largely been spent in background roles, playing in bands led by Emmylou Harris, Shawn Colvin, Alison Krauss and Robert Plant, while also producing records by, among others, Plant and Thompson. Lauderdale, 55, has paid the bills through the years mainly by writing songs that other, far more popular country artists such as George Strait and Patty Loveless have turned into hits.


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Hey there iPhone hacking geniuses...
How difficult would it be to put together a USB driver for the iPhone such that I could hook it up to an external USB drive and browse the contents of it (using Terminal or a File Browser when implemented)? I was just thinking that it would be sweet to be able to hook my WD Passport drive to the iPhone and watch movies from it while on a long plane or car trip.
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Jackson will play for Virginia State University next year, Louisa coach Jon Meeks said Thursday night. The Lions will hold a signing ceremony for Jackson at the school next Thursday.
Jackson is part of the first VSU recruiting class for new head coach Latrell Scott, the former University of Virginia head coach and head coach at the University of Richmond.
Jackson was an all-Jefferson District selection on both sides of the football as a senior in 2012. Meeks said he expects Jackson to play safety at VSU -- meaning his position coach will be former Monticello High School head coach Rodney Redd, who left earlier this off-season to become Scott's defensive backs coach.
On the field this season, Jackson's Lions faced a few setbacks. He accounted for 28 total touchdowns and 2,410 yards, and was a first team all district honoree on both offense and defense. But the Lions were just 3-6 heading into their final game of the season against an undefeated Western Albemarle team. Determined to finish strong, Jackson threw for 2 touchdowns and ran for 3, including the game winning score that sealed the upset in the final seconds.
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they are not separated in Australia. The majority party in the lower house forms the 'government' / executive.
As a non US citizen living outside the USA it makes no difference to me. Let's face it for all the high ideals the US aspires to, the protections you thought you had never applied to foreigners like me. We've always been legitimate targets.
I hope to hell the continued attention can help you restore the balance if only so China wont be able to say 'come on you guys do it too'.
Ironic that Obama used that excuse when it come to US spying on allies but you know, they're/we're still foreigners, so it's ok...
Makes me think of A Few Good Men. Same self justification of sacrificing fundamental principles to a 'greater good', and of course "the Truth? You can't handle the damn Truth!"
Sadly by the time enough is known about these days for the movie dramatisation, Jack (and probably the rest of us) will have left this flawed existence and moved on.
Is it lack of Geographical Isolation? or is it that teh interwebs (and ok the Plain old Telephone Service before that) have made Geographic Isolation != total isolation?
But he leaves off two other factors:
1) USAian entertainment syndicated at prices below those that local producers can compete with. Whether you call this cultural pollution (bay watch) or cultural enrichment (some example I can't think of right now)you can't deny that US TV and cinema are globally pervasive.
2) The two most globally dominate countries of the last few centuries were Britain and (at least for the time being) the US. Which means that English is The lingua franca.
Who knows? in 100 years the international lingua franca might be Chinese and condescending arseholes will be using English instead of Latin to say things like lingua franca.
Exactly. If true Google's need for something on Orange's network must have exceeded Orange's need for Google.
Kind of hard to believe though. I could easily believe that Google have purchased transmission and/or colo off of Orange and Orange's CEO doesn't understand the difference.
We probably wont hear the truth though, every Google agreement I have seen was big on non disclosure. I suspect a few words have been exchanged on that matter...
In any case I see evidence this has anything to do with net neutrality .
I'm sure they realize that. The problem is they dont see anything wrong with it.
"if you'd asked, I would have said that thread-starters tend to get more votes"
Just a thought, have you considered a top conversations category? You could base it on the number of votes on all comments on the thread. It might be biased towards longer threads but often the conversation is more interesting than the 'one liners'
Countries that retained state sponsored monopolies could sustain higher prices that limited growth. Countries that introduced competition saw prices drop, elasticity kicked in and those markets grew. There's a clear correlation, but sender pays isnt the cause, the cause is basic economics.
The problem with suggesting Sender Pays for internet settlement is the fantasy that packets are an analogue for minutes. There is no scalable way to measure interactions and no clear way to even agree which party in an individual interaction got the most value and thus should pay. There is nothing that works better than what the internet industry has come up with while the ITU were off doing other things.
Network and content providers have been arguing about this for near 20 years. The ITU actually already put out paper/recommendation that internet settlement should be on a sender pays basis in the late 90's. The internet including practically all telcos basically ignored them.
Even if this does get voted through the internet will ignore them again. I doubt the US is going to give over legislative control over ICANN for a start.
Regimes that want 'control' already can do and already do whatever they want anyway.
The ITU is making a last desperate grasp for relevancy. Even arguing against it lends them more legitimacy than they have.
I dont think the ITU is the right international body for this. Some members of the ITU are no doubt taking this as an opportunity for a bureaucratic power grab.
But others are motivated by concerns that the non government organizations that run critical components of the internet are only non government because US Federal law delegated the responsibility. If you visit this site only casually you will see plenty of evidence of discomfort from US citizens over what the government is doing to spy on it's own citizens, block websites, attempts to impose US law on foreign websites, etc. so it shouldn't be too surprising that the US government isn't quite trusted to maintain it's "hands off" oversight.
These concerns aren't going to go away and debate about how to address them is a good thing.
I wonder how much the US security agencies possible success in pressuring US telecom equipment vendors to install back-doors in their equipment lends weight to speculation that the Chinese government has or might do the same to vendors under their jurisdiction...
*puts on tin foil hat*
No, the US dollar is historically weak at the moment. Companies like to do business in the US because it is a big market and there is money to be made.
Is this Apple's fault? Google's fault? They're just gaming the system and blaming either is another way of saying it's not *my* fault.
But it our fault: we through our ignorance or disengagement with the democratic process have created the rules. Many people here are engaging with politicians and trying to make a difference. Many of us are not.
You can do something about it.
Speaking from personal experience, this is just the way it is in India. If you could have done something and did not the bureaucracy will go after you - that it would be cost prohibitive is not a defence. The courts often agree.
What are you talking about? They disclosed it all right there in the name of the company.
Its kind of like the joke "A man can spend his life building bridges. Do they call him John the Bridge Builder? No. A man can spend his life raising crops. Do they call him John the Farmer? No. But you fuck one goat . . ."
you can spend your life making bad decisions but piss your pants just once . . .
Apple could continue to focus on inovation to keep their competitive edge but sustained inovation is hard and litigation is easy.
It seems to me that a group of people independently attempting to save the same problem came up with similar solutions. This could be taken as something more positive than: it's already been done.
Sure they could have done some more research, but since they didn't and got similar answers anyway... isnt this a good thing?
never, ever disrespect baseball (or god help you Babe Ruth) in the presence of Dark Helmet.
I lost all respect for the peace prize when they gave it to Obama before he'd had a chance to actually do something. The award has become a bitch to European politics. And right now the Europeans are terrified that cheap Chinese labour is going to effect their standard of living.
So they give the price to a Chinese activist/dissident. And China reacts predictably.
Of course they could, but going out and negotiating with each individual rights holder for each individual work takes up a lot more resources than simply selecting a track from the pre approved library. It's a cheaper not to.


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Marcantel, 30, was officially ordained as a minister in January of this year but has been a licensed minister since February 2002.
"Many years ago, several people made some serious investments in me in order to bring me to the feet of Christ, and did whatever it took to help me grow spiritually," Marcantel said. "Had they not made those investments, I would not be the person I am today."
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Neighborhoods: University Place, South Central
Will never go here again – My first & last time going to this establishment was on a Friday night. I'm used to going to clubs in Houston & I usually don't mind paying the high cover charge but when we got in there & found out a "sippy" cup of Margarita was $11 I was outdone. To make matters worse, if I have to pay $20 to get anywhere I am not gonna stand up all nite or sit outside. This is ridiculous that you have to "buy" a table for only two people to sit down. When we got there the music they was playing wasn't anything I ever heard of. The promoter needs to get a new job & they need to advertise or have the ladies the front inform you before you pay that you will have to stand up all nite. We was there for about 10 minutes & left. What a waste of $40. Left there & went to Grooves & had an excellent time.
Reverse Discrimanation! – Turned Away! My husband and i showed up on Friday night only to be turned away by the african american door men! We were there on "Urban Night" and they said we" would not like it". They refered us to their sister club, downtown. HMMM! Were we too old...or too hispanic?? Or they thought we we looked too much like white folk? Wow, any which way, it was just wrong!
Great! – There's nothing I do not like here. The food is superb...the steak on steak night melts in your mouth. The beer selection is first rate. I've introduced my parents here as well and they raved about it. The staff is top notch as well. Cheers to Red Lion! My only regret is that i've not been able to make it here more often since i moved out of the neighborhood
WORST EXPERIENCE EVER! POOR PROMOTERS & POOR MGMT – DJ's & Music lovers stay clear of this establishment. Worst experience I've had in years!! Promoter, Evin Anothony and the bar manager need to find jobs they are qualified to do. "Overhead" is not a viable reason to close your establishment before your posted and advertised regular business hours. Promoting is more than a Facebook invite and is the Promoters job. The DJ's are hired to spin. .
The promoter booked 2 very talented DJ's, Darrin Sterling & Bjorne Larson to spin from 9:00pm-2:00 am on Thursday night. They advertised that Bambou would be open until 2:00 am... we were KICKED OUT at 12:31am. They not only misrepresented their business hours but they used their inability to promote their establishment properly as a reason to close during the middle of the DJ's set. The bar manager was extremely rude & condesending. I'll never visit this establishment again and if I were a DJ I'd be extremely leery of spin'n at BamBou. $10.00 is an insult not payment for a DJ gig. WORST LOUNGE IN HOUSTON!!
Poetry Lounge at BamBou – Poetry Lounge has now moved to BamBou. Open Mic Poetry every Sunday. Doors open at 6 and show starts at 7. Hosted by Se7en the Poet. Dress Code is enforced. No Shorts,Baseball Caps or Athletic sneakers. Call 713-516-2513 for info!
Best time ever!! – I must say it has been awhile since I had been to this club, almost a year. The first time I went I had an OK time, this time it was a great experience. Once we got thru the doors the ladies at the entrance asked us if we had a reservation and we said we did not have one. They were able to find us a table, gave us a business card so that we could book in advance and told us the waitress would be with us shortly. As soon as we sat down our waitress came over and told us about the specials that they had and we ordered. The manager came by and asked us how everything was and we told him we had just gotten there and we where there to celebrate a birthday and he wished the birthday girl happy birthday and said he would be right back. Next thing we know there is a bottle coming our way with sparklers and the birthday girls name on all the T.V.'s in the club. I was really impressed with attention our party was getting! Everyone in the club turned and looked our way! We celebrated the night to the extreme. When the night was over we saw that the manager was at the door and thanking everyone for coming out. I am going back on a regular basis now. the Band was awesome and the DJ was great! The staff was friendly and attentive!!
One Of The Best Lounges In Houston – I Love this place.. The Music is really good, and the place is nicely decorated.. It has an amazing atmosphere.. This lounge is really upscale and very classy..
What happened? – We use to frequent this establishment on a weekly basis. I enjoyed the security team and the preferential treatment when ordering a bottle which was a regular occurance. Our most recent visit was a major disappointment. The great security team that was in place was let go. The staff ignored our party the entire 30 minutes were there and the male bartender verbally replied that he did not care that one of the drinks he had made did not taste right plus refussed to replace it. The same band has been playing at Bam Bou for the last several months so that gets a bit boring after awhile. I gave a 1 star rating due to all of the negative changes this company has made that are all non-customer focused changes. Good luck with your business!
Great time!! – I went to Bam Bou for a birthday party and we had the greatest time I have had in Houston in a long time. From start to finish they made it a faboulous night for us!! The music was great and so was the staff.
Bar service extremly slow – We attended a a happy hour event with about 200 people. There were only 2 staff at the bar. The service was extremely slow. It took so long just to get a drink. Poor planning of the location not to have enough staff. They lost a lot of business because of this and the people in attendance were not very pleased.
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